Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
House and The Blue Casket (Cist Las)
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
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
- 53.28151, -3.82862
- Cadw reference
- 87439
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 block of commercial and residential buildings fronting the street.
History
A mid C19 shop and house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey, built as a pair with number 1.
Exterior
A late-Georgian style 3-storey 2-window shop and house in a range with No 1. It has a scribed roughcast front painted cream, slate roof, roughcast end stacks and rear skylight. The present shop front was inserted in the 1990s. It has 4 round-headed lights over a fielded-panel stall-board and entrance in the splay on the R. The 1st floor has a canted oriel with 4-pane horned sash window. In the upper storey are 4-pane sash windows in eared architraves.
The rear is pebble-dashed and has 4-pane sash windows, lighting the stair on the L side.
Interior
Modernised.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a commercial and residential building of definite C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.
Nearby in the register
- House and Oriel y Crochenwyr (The Potters' Gallery)Commercialunder 1 mi
- House, Rhywberth I Bawb (Something for Everyone) and Conwy CrystalCommercialunder 1 mi
- Aberconwy HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- House and Chatter BoxCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.