Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Porth Uchaf
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
- 53.28026, -3.83263
- Cadw reference
- 3366
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
On the corner of Upper Gate Street just N of the town wall at porth Uchaf.
History
A late C18 or early C19 house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 2½-storey single-fronted house of whitened pebble-dashed walls, with smooth-rendered black-painted plinth, architraves, 1st-floor sill band and angle pilasters. The roof is slate, with roughcast stack to the L. The entrance on the R side is reached up 2 slate steps, and has a replacement door under an earlier overlight. The surround is pedimented with fleur-de-lis attached finial. Windows are 12-pane hornless sash in the ground floor, 9-pane to the 1st floor.
In the L gable end is a 9-pane sash window in the ground floor, and a small steel-framed attic casement window offset to the R. The rear is rubble stone, with an outshut on the L side. The main range has a 1st-floor 9-pane hornless sash window on the R side.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a small town house retaining definite C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- Plas Uchaf, 4 Victoria TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 1 Newboro TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 2 Newboro TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 3 Victoria TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.