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
3308
Building Number
28
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/10/1981
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006
Name of Property
Pen-y-bryn tea rooms
Address
28 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Walled town
Easting
278062
Northing
377550
Street Side
NW
Location
In a block of commercial and residential buildings at the SW end of High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably built in the C18, with integral rear wing. Formerly the Ship Inn. Facade detail characteristic of the later C19.
Exterior
A Georgian 3-storey 2-window house and tea rooms, of pebble-dashed front, smooth-rendered rusticated quoins to the R, 1st and 2nd-floor sill bands, and eared architraves. The roof is slate, with central brick stack. The entrance is on the R side, a replacement mid C20 door under an earlier overlight, in an architrave with simple pediment. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes in the lower storey, also under simple pediments. The 1st floor has similar sashes and the 2nd floor replacement 4-pane windows, incorporating hopper lights, in original openings.
The rear has a 1-storey flat-roof projection on the R side. On the L side is a gabled rubble-stone rear wing with large external stack.
Interior
The ground floor is divided into 2 units by back-to-back fireplaces with altered detail. In the rear wing is a cross beam with run-out stops. The stair is at the end of an entrance corridor, through a wooden arch. A dog-leg stair, it has a closed string to the lower flight, but the upper flight retains turned balusters and square newel. Slate steps lead down to a brick vaulted cellar in the main range.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as building with C18 origins and good C19 character and C19 character and detail, and for group value within the historical townscape.
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