Attached former Minister's House

Roman Catholic Church of the Lady of the Rosary and attached former Minister's House, Penmaenmawr

This group comprises a chapel and adjoining minister's residence, both constructed in snecked rubble with Penmaenmawr granite dressings and shallow hipped slate roofs with wooden bracketing to oversailing eaves.

The chapel is a five-bay rectangular building dated 1867. Its three-bay symmetrical façade displays Tuscan giant order columns supporting a Classical entablature with modillion treatment. A coped parapet rises above, with four spaced ball finials relating to the orders below. A central raised cartouche set into the parapet bears the date 1867, with a plain iron cross above. The frieze is inscribed 'Domus Dei et Porta Coeli' (Genesis xxviii.17).

The central entrance occupies a plain, full-height arched recess and features a moulded architrave and plain bracketed entablature, with recessed eight-panelled double doors. Flanking windows are set above a moulded cill-course, with moulded and pedimented architraves; these are multi-pane sash windows with marginal glazing. Five similar windows, though without pediments, line the long sides of the chapel, each with projecting stone cills.

The former minister's house adjoins to the rear, set back slightly behind a dwarf walled forecourt. It shares the same construction materials and finish. Its near-symmetrical three-bay front has a central recessed entrance with a part-glazed boarded door. To the left stands a large contemporary recessed sash window of four panes with marginal glazing and projecting slate cill. To the right of the entrance are part-glazed modern double doors (now boarded up), which replaced an original window of the same type. Three further similar sashes occupy the first floor. A contemporary service lean-to extension projects from the rear, with a modern flat-roofed extension beyond. A squat stock brick chimney with one contemporary ceramic pot is present.

The interior was not accessible at the time of inspection in July 1995.