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
87404
Building Number
8-8a  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/10/1981  
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006  
Name of Property
Shop and house  
Address
8-8a Castle Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Conwy  
Town
Conwy  
Locality
Walled town  
Easting
278208  
Northing
377601  
Street Side
SW  
Location
Fronting the street in a block of commercial and residential buildings near the NW end of Castle Street.  

Description


Broad Class
 
Period
 

History
A C19 shop and house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey. Originally known with No 6 as Regent House. The original plate-glass shop window is shown in an early C20 photograph, when the shop was occupied by J.P. Griffiths, tailors.  

Exterior
A 3-storey 3-bay shop and house in late-Georgian style. Of whitened roughcast, but painted black in the lower storey, slate roof with end roughcast stack to the L and axial stack to the R. The shop front has central half-glazed panel door and overlight, flanked by recent 2-light shop windows with panelled mullions and transom, over a rendered stall riser. On the L side is a fielded-panel house door under an overlight. Outer panelled pilasters are original, and are under a plain black fascia and moulded cornice. In the middle storey are camber-headed windows in black-painted architraves with pediments, and 12-pane hornless sashes. The upper storey has architraves and camber heads to shorter 6-pane sash windows R and L and blind window in the centre. The rear is cement rendered and has replacement windows.  

Interior
Modernised.  

Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a C19 commercial building retaining original character, and for its group value within the historical townscape.  

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