Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
17 Chapel 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
- 53.28154, -3.83017
- Cadw reference
- 87369
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
On the corner of Crown Lane and in a row of 3 houses.
History
An C18 house, part of a longer range with number 15.
Exterior
A 2-storey single-fronted house of whitened pebble-dashed front, black-painted smooth-rendered surrounds, steep slate roof and shared brick stack. Openings have pedimented surrounds in the lower storey. The entrance is on the R has a boarded door under a cambered head. Windows are small-pane late C20 replacements in earlier openings.
In the R gable end, on the corner with Crown Lane, is a replaced small-pane window in the lower storey, and a 2-light 1st-floor window.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window replacement, as one of a pair of rare-surviving pre-C19 houses near the town centre, and for group value within the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- 15 Chapel StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14 Crown LaneNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 18 Chapel StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
- 12 Crown LaneDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.