Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
3300
Building Number
7
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/10/1981
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006
Name of Property
House and Chatter Box
Address
7 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Walled town
Easting
278168
Northing
377611
Street Side
SE
Location
In a block of commercial and residential buildings fronting the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A mid C19 shop and house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A late-Georgian style 3-storey 3-bay shop and house of whitened roughcast front (partly renewed in scribed cement render), slate roof and brick stack to the L. The shop has a replacement C20 front, with plate glass windows R and L, which both have 3 smaller panes above a transom. The central recessed double doors have a frosted-glass overlight. To the R is a boarded passage door. The 1st floor has 12-pane hornless sash windows, and the 2nd floor similar but shorter 6-pane windows.
The 2-window rear is rubble stone. In the lower storey the windows are boarded up and to their L is a recessed replacement passage door. Other windows are hornless sashes. In the 1st floor is a tall 18-pane stair window to the L, 12-pane window to the R, both under a brick segmental head. The upper storey has two 16-pane windows.
Interior
Modernised.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a commercial and residential building of definite C19 character, retaining original detail, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.
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