Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wren's Nest
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Locality
- Colwyn Bay
- Community
- Colwyn Bay
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29743, -3.73752
- Cadw reference
- 14681
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
On the east corner with Alexandra Road.
History
Designed by S Colwyn Foulkes, architect, of Colwyn Bay, 1926, for a Mrs Guy, whose family owned a motor business in Manchester.
Exterior
Buff style brick, red tiled roof with axial stacks. Neo-georgian style, 2 storeys, 3 window range with central entrance, and iron rail with interlaced circle motif to recessed loggia. This has lattice work 'pilasters' and a valence, and French doors with small panes. Ground floor windows are paired tall 12-pane sashes with straight brick heads and sills. The upper windows are shorter 12-pane sashes, paired with a central mullion. Similar windows in E gable return. The return elevation to Alexandra Road has a big canted bay to ground floor, and tripartite window above. Service wing to rear with paired 8-sash windows to W, and tall stair facing E. Sill band to first floor windows formed from a band of bricks layed alternatively flat and vertically. Reeded wood eaves cornice.
Interior
The house is simply detailed internally, but retains many original fittings. It is compactly planned about a wide central hall, off which the 2 principal rooms open. Staircase offset to rear, and kitchen,scullery etc. in rear wing.
Reason for designation
A good surviving example of the individually commissioned domestic work of the local architect, S Colwyn Foulkes, which uses an inventive neo-georgian style to produce a small house notable for its careful planning.
Nearby in the register
- CotswoldDomesticunder 1 mi
- Catholic Church of St Joseph including attached presbyteryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- MilepostTransportunder 1 mi
- Colwyn Bay County Primary SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.