The Chocolate House (Formerly Church Hall), Dolwyddelan, Conwy

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0528 / 53°3'9"N

Longitude: -3.8878 / 3°53'16"W

OS Eastings: 273561

OS Northings: 352277

OS Grid: SH735522

Mapcode National: GBR 60.CQ2W

Mapcode Global: WH554.7JXJ

Plus Code: 9C5R3436+4V

Entry Name: The Chocolate House (Formerly Church Hall)

Listing Date: 28 February 1974

Last Amended: 17 February 1997

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3225

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

ID on this website: 300003225

Location: Immediately behind (W of) the parish church of St. Gwyddelan, in the village centre.

County: Conwy

Community: Dolwyddelan

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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History

Sub-Medieval farm complex, shown in a late C18 watercolour by Sandby. By the end of the C17 an Inn named Tan yr Eglwys; by the end of the C19 extended and converted as a school. Used as a church hall from 1930 until latterly.

Exterior

T-shaped one- and one-and-a-half storey building of rubble with modern slate roofs and squat, louvred chimneys. Late C16 north (primary) wing with additions of the C17; largely remodelled late C19, to which period all openings and features belong. Entrance to E side of N wing with, to the R a window and above two large gabled dormers; all openings to this face have shallow, triangular pointed slatestone lintels. To the L, a projecting gabled crosswing with two tall windows with paired lights; extruded between this and the N range, a single-storey catslide porch with plain opening to side and arched opening as before. To front; plain inner entrance to crosswing. Further catslide extension beyond crosswing, with window (formerly an entrance) and similar tall windows to far L. Modern, tall glazed double doors to S and W faces, with paired tall windows as before to R of each. Single-storey catslide addition to S of W range.

Interior

Modernised interiors.

Reasons for Listing

Included for group value with the parish church of St. Gwyddelan and for its special historic interest as a former school and inn.

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Other nearby listed buildings

I Church of St. Gwyddelan
In the centre of the village, set back slightly within a low rubble-walled churchyard and surrounded by mature trees.
II Pont-y-Llan
Spanning the Afon Lledr in the centre of the village, between the parish church and the school.
II Moriah Calvinistic Methodist Chapel
Dramatically-sited in the centre of the streetscape; raised up and set back from the main road on a revetted bank.
II Ty Capel Moriah
Adjoining the chapel flush to the rear (N).
II Capel Isaf
At right-angles to the street immediately beyond Pont-y-Llan and overlooking the railway station to the N.
II Ty Capel Isaf
Adjoining the Capel Isaf to the SW and both stepped-down and set back from it.
II Bridge and Causeway to Former Quarry at Chwarel-y-Fedw.
Located some 1500m NE of Dolwyddelan village, between the main road (A 470) and the railway track, on the SE bank of the river Lledr.
II Tan-y-Castell Monument
Sited prominently on the roadside, immediately to the NE of Tan-y-Castell.

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The Chocolate House (Formerly Church Hall)

A Grade II Listed Building in Dolwyddelan, Conwy