The Old Palace, St. Asaph (Llanelwy), Denbighshire

Entry Name: The Old Palace

Listing Date: 16 November 1962

Last Amended: 24 November 1987

Grade: II*

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1469

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300001469

Location: Situated below the Cathedral to E on sloping site. Reached by drive near the bottom of the High Street; wooded grounds to W

County: Denbighshire

Community: St. Asaph (Llanelwy)

Community: St. Asaph

Built-Up Area: St Asaph

Traditional County: Flintshire

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History

Built by Bishop Bagot in 1791 probably on an earlier palace dated 1634 or possibly to succeed Esgobty farmhouse as the Bishopric. Design attributed to Samuel Wyatt (of Bodorgan House, Anglesey). Enlarged to W for Bishop Carey 1830-1 by the London architect Edward Blore; modern additions by Brian Vaughan 1977-8.

Exterior

Simplified Jacobethan 6-bay main (W) front with asymmetrical fenestration and rock faced masonry with red sandstone dressings. 3-storey, with attic to gabled advanced end bays; gable parapets, ground floor stringcourse and plinth. 2nd floor slightly set back to bays with central chimney breast. Tudor hoodmoulds to windows, mainly 2-light sashes, 4 and 5 light windows to outer bays; tall twin transomed heavily leaded windows flank central entrance with gable and finial over containing Bishop Carey's coat of arms. 4-window n front, half blore, half wyatt with coresponding differences of material and detail. Fine 9-bay 2-storey ashlar garden (E) front with cill band, plinth and 3-bay central bow with shallow domed roof. Hipped slate roof, parapet and coved cornice with chimney stacks and gables of main front rising behind. Blind panels between floors; central panel over entrance has Bishop Bagot's coat of arms and dated 1791; bracket cornice over panelled doors. Small pane sash windows, 9-pane to 1st floor and 15-pane to ground floor. Modern brick range (not of special interest) adjoins to rendered s side which retains 1 sash window. stone plaque by entrance dated 1634 relating to the time of Bishop John Owen.

Interior

Interior retains tall square entrance hall with gothic detail to T-plan staircase and tripartite landing screen. E range has adamesque cornice with arabesques to central rose, panelled shutters, dado rail and Wyatt fireplace with swags. Bow window to saloon with fluted architraves to doors. Stone flagged, brick groin vaulted cellars with one barrel vaulted chamber.

Reasons for Listing

Group value with lodge, Tithe Barn House and Palace Gardens.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Garden Wall at Esgobty Farm
To the N of the property, bordering with the Old Palace.
II* Esgobty Farmhouse
To SW of the cathedral, reached down farm road with farmyard to E; on sloping ground.
II Palace Gardens
Detached at end of cobbled Great Yard, reached off the bottom of the High Street.
II Dovecote at Esgonty Farm
Situated at the W end of the rear garden to Esgobty farmhouse.
II Tithe Barn House
On W side of the Great Yard to the former Bishop's Palace, opposite the lodge and with gable end to the street.
II Lodge & Gatepiers at driveway to the Old Palace
At right angles to the bottom of the street with the main drive to left and Great yard to right.
II The Barrow Arms P.H.
Set into the slope near the bottom of the street, detached to left.
II Beulah House (K&M Massey, including St. Asaph Video)
At the lower end of the street, set in the slope and stepped down from Glasgow House to left.

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The Old Palace

A Grade II* Listed Building in St. Asaph (Llanelwy), Denbighshire

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