Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
11 Lower Gate Street
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Conwy, designated on 6 May 1970.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 6 May 1970
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28238, -3.82864
- Cadw reference
- 87359
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 row of houses built against the town wall, facing the quayside.
History
An early C19 cottage with characteristic later C19 facade detail.
Exterior
A 2-storey double-fronted cottage of whitened pebble-dash, black-painted smooth-rendered plinth, architraves, quoin strips, 1st-floor sill and eaves band. The roof is slate (stacks have been removed). Openings have segmental heads in the lower storey. The central boarded door is flanked by 16-pane horned sash windows in the ground floor and 1st-floor 12-pane hornless sash windows. The rear is built against the town wall.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 cottage retaining original character, and as part of a group with Nos 10 and 12 of well-preserved quayside dwellings.
Nearby in the register
- The Smallest HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- 12 Lower Gate StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Swan CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 16 Berry StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.