Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Shop and house
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Walled town, Conwy, designated on 8 October 1981.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 8 October 1981
- Locality
- Walled town
- Town
- Conwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.28135, -3.82819
- Cadw reference
- 87404
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 near the NW end of Castle Street.
History
A C19 shop and house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey. Originally known with No 6 as Regent House. The original plate-glass shop window is shown in an early C20 photograph, when the shop was occupied by J.P. Griffiths, tailors.
Exterior
A 3-storey 3-bay shop and house in late-Georgian style. Of whitened roughcast, but painted black in the lower storey, slate roof with end roughcast stack to the L and axial stack to the R. The shop front has central half-glazed panel door and overlight, flanked by recent 2-light shop windows with panelled mullions and transom, over a rendered stall riser. On the L side is a fielded-panel house door under an overlight. Outer panelled pilasters are original, and are under a plain black fascia and moulded cornice.
In the middle storey are camber-headed windows in black-painted architraves with pediments, and 12-pane hornless sashes. The upper storey has architraves and camber heads to shorter 6-pane sash windows R and L and blind window in the centre.
The rear is cement rendered and has replacement windows.
Interior
Modernised.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 commercial building retaining original character, and for its group value within the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- House and Lovejoys AntiquesNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- House and Fruits & Shoots (No 6a) and Conwy Strollers (No 6)Commercialunder 1 mi
- House, Popty Conwy Bakery (No 4) and Penny Farthing Sweet Shop (No 4a)Commercialunder 1 mi
- House and Rowlands PharmacyNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.