Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pen-y-bryn tea rooms
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Conwy, designated on 8 October 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28086, -3.83036
- Cadw reference
- 3308
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 94 Beaumaris (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In a block of commercial and residential buildings at the SW end of High Street.
History
Probably built in the C18, with integral rear wing. Formerly the Ship Inn. Facade detail characteristic of the later C19.
Exterior
A Georgian 3-storey 2-window house and tea rooms, of pebble-dashed front, smooth-rendered rusticated quoins to the R, 1st and 2nd-floor sill bands, and eared architraves. The roof is slate, with central brick stack. The entrance is on the R side, a replacement mid C20 door under an earlier overlight, in an architrave with simple pediment. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes in the lower storey, also under simple pediments. The 1st floor has similar sashes and the 2nd floor replacement 4-pane windows, incorporating hopper lights, in original openings.
The rear has a 1-storey flat-roof projection on the R side. On the L side is a gabled rubble-stone rear wing with large external stack.
Interior
The ground floor is divided into 2 units by back-to-back fireplaces with altered detail. In the rear wing is a cross beam with run-out stops. The stair is at the end of an entrance corridor, through a wooden arch. A dog-leg stair, it has a closed string to the lower flight, but the upper flight retains turned balusters and square newel. Slate steps lead down to a brick vaulted cellar in the main range.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as building with C18 origins and good C19 character and C19 character and detail, and for group value within the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- House and Pantri Conwy PantryCommercialunder 1 mi
- House and G.H. Edwards NewsagentsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Alfredo RestaurantCommercialunder 1 mi
- Red Lion HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.