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
3310
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/10/1981
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006
Name of Property
Conwy Police Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Walled town
Easting
278025
Northing
377555
Street Side
NW
Location
Occupying the NW side of the square between Bangor Road and York Place.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Probably built in the 1860s and the police station shown on this site in a map of Conwy in Black’s Guide to North Wales, 1869. It is also shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A castellated 2-storey police station of grey pebble-dashed walls with dressed-stone quoins, dressings and bands, on a battered rendered plinth. The steep slate roof is behind an embattled parapet and coped gables on moulded kneelers, and has end stacks of brick on stone bases. The 3-bay front has an asymmetrical accent provided by an advanced gabled bay set back from the L end, which is under a crow-stepped gable with blank shield and pinnacle. A string course is between storeys. The central entrance has a heavy moulded surround and a replacement boarded door under an earlier overlight. Mullioned windows incorporate 2-pane margin-lit sashes to the ground floor, and shorter 1st-floor windows of 1 over 2 panes. The L-hand bay has 2-light windows. The central bay has an offset 2-light 1st-floor window, and the R-hand bay has a 2-light ground-floor window and single-light 1st-floor window. Between storeys the central and R-hand bay have a wide inscription tablet with 'Police Station' in raised letters. In the L-hand bay is a cast-iron street sign above the ground-floor window.
The 2-window L gable end to Bangor Road has 1-light windows to the outer sides. The 1-window R gable end to York Place has windows in each storey with sashes incorporating 2 lower panes. Set slightly back from the gable end is a lower 2-storey 3-window wing, with details similar to the main range but without embattlement, and with sashes of 1 over 2 panes. It has a panel door L of centre, and 2-light windows except for a single-light window upper R. Facing Bangor Road is another lower and shorter 2-storey 1-window rear wing, set slightly back from the gable end of the main range. It has small sash windows, of which the 1st-floor window has 2 panes in its lower sash. The rear of the building is enclosed by a high pebble-dashed yard wall with concrete embattlements and rendered quoins which, facing York Place, incorporates a panel door.
The forecourt has a ramp to the R side of the entrance and stone steps at the front to square panelled piers with shallow pyramid caps. A pebble-dashed parapet wall has freestone coping.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 police station of definite character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape of Lancaster Square.
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