Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
3261
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/05/1970
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006
Name of Property
Knights Gone By (also known as Plas Fardre)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Walled town
Easting
278318
Northing
377523
Street Side
N
Location
Set back on the N side of Castle Square, facing the small lane known as Porth Bach.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A C19 former house shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey. Now a shop and apartments.
Exterior
A 4-bay 3-storey house simple gothic character. Whitened scribed roughcast with smooth-rendered angle pilaster strips painted black, and steep slate roof with barge boards and pendant finials. The building has 3 gabled bays in its main range and a 4th bay set back on the L side. The symmetrical main range has a narrower central bay with half-glazed doors recessed and under an overlight, in a doorcase with moulded cornice and consoles framing a small painted fascia. It is flanked by 2-storey canted bay windows, each with replacement 2-light casements. Above the entrance the 1st floor has a 2-light casement window in a moulded architrave. The upper storey has eared architraves to shorter 2-light windows.
Set back to the L, the L-hand bay has a double-panelled door with overlight boarded up, in the angle with the main range. The 1st floor has a 2-light window with architrave similar to the front. The L gable end of this L bay has a tall small-pane window, and 2-light upper-storey window, both in architraves similar to the front. To the L of the bay, the gable end of the main range has a renewed panel door. The R gable end is altered, with 1-storey flat-roof projection, and inserted 2-light windows. The 3-window rear has replacement windows in earlier openings, and gables at the ends.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a former house retaining definite C19 character and detail, and for its contribution to the historical townscape in a prominent position close to the castle and town wall.
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