Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
87363
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/05/1970
Date of Amendment
05/05/2006
Name of Property
,12,Lower Gate Street,Town centre,,,
Address
12 Lower Gate Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Conwy
Town
Conwy
Locality
Walled town
Easting
278176
Northing
377722
Street Side
SW
Location
In a row of houses built against the town wall, facing the quayside.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
A late C18 or early C19 house, formerly the Royal Oak Tavern. Facade detail characteristic of the later C19.
Exterior
A double-fronted 2½-storey house of whitened pebble-dashed walls, smooth-rendered black-painted plinth and architraves and 1st-floor sill band. The steep slate roof has an external stack to the L, which is rebuilt in roughcast above the roof line. The original entrance is offset to the L, with a replacement half-glazed fielded-panel door under a lean-to canopy on brackets. Windows are renewed 2-pane sashes in ground and 1st floors. Two gabled dormers have plain casements.
Interior
Not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding window replacement, as a former commercial building retaining early character, part of a group with Nos 10 and 11 of well-preserved quayside dwellings.
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