Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llanrwst Institute
Llanrwst, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanrwst, Conwy, designated on 19 February 1993.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Recreational
- Date of designation
- 19 February 1993
- Community
- Llanrwst
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13916, -3.79664
- Cadw reference
- 3604
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On corner of Stryd Yr Aradr (Plough Street).
History
Dated 1876 in pediment.
Exterior
Three storeys, grey stone with pale limestone dressings. Elevation facing main road has hipped slate roof. Dentil cornice, bathstone quoins. Three bays, central projects beneath pediment with date 1876. Second floor has three camber headed windows in bathstone surrounds. On first floor, centre bay breaks forward to form rectangular bay with slate roof, hipped to front; camber-headed window with keystone, narrow rectangular windows in returns. Outer bays each have camber-headed window with keystone, pediment block over. Over ground floor, band course with inscription 'Llanrwst Institute'. bay has blocked round-headed window set in pedimented aedicule with Ionic columns; panelled apron below sill. Outer bays each have window with three-centred head, apron below sill; shallow lights to cellar. W??? return has single camber-headed window on second floor; paired windows with pediment block on first floor; two windows to ground floor as front.
Rear block facing Stryd Yr Aradr (Plough Street) has two simple square-headed second floor windows. On first floor, to L single, and to R, paired camber-headed windows all with pediment blocks. On ground floor to L, camber-headed entrance door with bracketed stone canopy. To R of this lower two-storey block has two first floor camber-headed windows (L window narrow). On ground floor, to L, door with cambered head and paired camber-headed windows. To R, single-storey lean-to with small window.
Nearby in the register
- Charlton's Stores, Pet & Aquatic CentreCommercialunder 1 mi
- The CarltonCommercialunder 1 mi
- The New InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Albion InnCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.