Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
House and Beyond the Ninth Wave
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Conwy, designated on 30 December 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2005
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28164, -3.82884
- Cadw reference
- 87397
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
Fronting the street in a block of commercial and residential buildings between Berry Street and Llewelyn Street.
History
Built in the late C19 as a pair with No 2, and shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 3-storey 3-window shop and house of roughcast painted light grey, under a steep slate roof with shared roughcast stacks. In the lower storey is a replacement shop front. It has central glazed doors and flanking plate glass windows, all under transoms with small-pane upper lights. At the L end is a replacement glazed house door and overlight. The fascia has been repainted, and above it is an awning with end brackets. The 1st and 2nd floors have 4-pane hornless sash windows, shorter to the 2nd floor, above which are steep gables.
The rear is whitened roughcast with sash windows.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a commercial and residential building of definite late C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- House and Bwty Ty-Dre (Town House Restaurant)No class recordedunder 1 mi
- House and YesteryearsNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Palace Cinema, including Theatre Bistro, Pearl of Conwy and Jensens hairdressersRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Old Youth ClubNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.