Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Sunnyside and Cafe T'air
Conwy, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Deganwy, 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
- Deganwy
- Community
- Conwy
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29487, -3.83291
- Cadw reference
- 87460
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
One of a pair of commercial buildings fronting the street opposite Deganwy Station.
History
Late C19 shops with houses shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey, to which a cast-iron veranda was subsequently added. The veranda is shown in an early C20 photograph, when the houses still had sash windows.
Exterior
One of a reflected pair of 2½-storey shop and houses, rusticated roughcast in the lower storey, rendered with imitation timber framing in the upper storey, under a slate roof with central brick stack to the front slope. Large 2-light shop windows flank a central recessed shop entrance (Café T'air and Townstyle) with half-glazed door. An outer half-glazed panel door, reached up stone steps, is the house entrance, beyond which is a doorway with boarded door, opening to a passage leading to rear premises (No 139).
In the 1st floor is an outer window and inner oriel window, both replaced in original openings, as is the gabled roof-dormer window.
A cast iron veranda of 6 bays spans Nos 131 (2 bays), 137 (3 bays) and 143 (1 bay). It has round posts, the lower parts fluted and with Corinthian capitals, foliage brackets incorporating rosettes, to a foliage openwork fascia and brattishing with corner finials. In the 3rd bay the fascia is in the form of an iron grille with '[D]EGANWY' in raised letters, above which is a crest and a panel with 'J E JONES'. The 6th bay has a similar crest but its original name panel has been removed.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as late C19 commercial buildings notable for the fine late C19 cast-iron veranda.
Nearby in the register
- Gorse Bank and TownstyleNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- VeneziaCommercialunder 1 mi
- Deganwy Castle HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- BrackenriggNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.