Memorial House is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. House.
Memorial House
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-span-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Memorial House is a symmetrical, 5-window, 3-storey range, likely dating to the 18th century. It is constructed of red brick with a slate roof, featuring brick end stacks, the one on the left set back behind the ridge. It has a moulded wooden eaves cornice and raised stone copings to the south gable end. The ground and first-floor windows are 12-pane hornless sashes with flat-arched heads of gauged brickwork, although only those on the lower right and upper left are original. The second-floor windows are 3-over-6-pane sashes located immediately under the eaves. The central entrance has double panelled fielded doors under a plain overlight, sheltered by a swept porch canopy supported on decorative brackets.
Two blocks adjoin the south gable end. To the right is a narrow, 2-storey block with a hipped roof and plain-glazed sashes. A lower, hipped-roofed block sits to the left, above which is a small segmental-headed window. The rear elevation has irregular fenestration including 4-pane and small-pane sashes, as well as 20th-century wooden windows, mainly with segmental brick heads. A shallow brick lean-to extends from the ground floor on the right. To the right, a narrow, full-height, hipped-roofed projection incorporates a late 20th-century brick porch with a 4-pane sash and sandstone lintel above. A single-storey range, likely a former outbuilding, is attached at a right angle to the far left; its east gable end is of rubble stone with moulded kneelers, raised stone copings, and a small brick stack. An adjoining 2-storey wing with a hipped roof projects beyond a neighbouring property and is partly built over an earlier stone boundary wall. It has three 4-pane sashes and sandstone lintels to the upper storey, a 3-light wooden casement with a segmental brick head on the ground floor to the left, a tripartite sash to the ground floor on the north end, and a small 4-pane sash to the upper storey. The right-hand return displays a boarded door and a narrow 20th-century window above.
A record from 1996 prior to conversion to apartments revealed an interior with classical-style details, including panelled doors, moulded architraves, beamed ceilings, and fireplaces with eared and fluted surrounds, although other fireplaces date to the 19th century. There is an original 18th-century staircase featuring columnar balusters, square newels connected with caps, and moulded handrails, with alterations to the upper flight. Window seats are present in front of stair-lights. Good cellars lie beneath the building; one has a deeply-chamfered ceiling beam, probably re-used from elsewhere, and another has a half-vault.
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