Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
12 Lower Gate Street
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
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
- 53.28243, -3.82872
- Cadw reference
- 87363
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In a row of houses built against the town wall, facing the quayside.
History
A late C18 or early C19 house, formerly the Royal Oak Tavern. Facade detail characteristic of the later C19.
Exterior
A double-fronted 2½-storey house of whitened pebble-dashed walls, smooth-rendered black-painted plinth and architraves and 1st-floor sill band. The steep slate roof has an external stack to the L, which is rebuilt in roughcast above the roof line. The original entrance is offset to the L, with a replacement half-glazed fielded-panel door under a lean-to canopy on brackets. Windows are renewed 2-pane sashes in ground and 1st floors. Two gabled dormers have plain casements.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window replacement, as a former commercial building retaining early character, part of a group with Nos 10 and 11 of well-preserved quayside dwellings.
Nearby in the register
- 11 Lower Gate StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The Smallest HouseDomesticunder 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.