House and G.H. Edwards Newsagents is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 2005. Shop and house.

House and G.H. Edwards Newsagents

WRENN ID
pale-bracket-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 December 2005
Type
Shop and house
Address
House and G.H. Edwards Newsagents, 30 High Street, Walled Town
OS grid reference
SH 780 775
Coordinates
53.28083, -3.83044
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This building is a 2½-storey shop and house, featuring whitened roughcast walls and rusticated quoins. It has a slate roof that is hipped at the corner, with boarded eaves, terracotta ridge tiles, and finials. A brick ridge stack is located at the center of the High Street elevation, while a stack is positioned at the left end facing Lancaster Square.

The front facing High Street has a two-window design. The shop area includes plate-glass windows set on thin turned posts with fretwork brackets, along with central half-glazed panel doors and an overlight. The house windows are horned sashes, with first-floor windows presented in canted oriels topped with hipped tile roofs. These windows feature a distinctive glazing pattern of 12 over 2 panes in the top sash and a single pane in the bottom sash. The attic windows are segmental-headed, framed in moulded architraves within half dormers that have simple barge boards and finials. These attic windows also have 8 panes in the top sash and a single pane in the bottom sash.

On the Lancaster Square elevation, which has three windows, there is a three-light shop window that mirrors the details of the High Street front. At the left end, a panelled house door with an overlight is present. The first floor features oriel windows similar to those on the High Street, flanking a central blank raised panel that was formerly painted. The attic includes two half-dormers like those on the High Street, with a segmental-headed stair window in a moulded architrave between them, displaying the same distinctive glazing pattern as the dormers.

A lean-to cast iron veranda wraps around both elevations, supported by round posts with capitals, and was once adorned with a valance. The center and left-hand bays on the Lancaster Square elevation are higher and were added later, with the end supported by a scrollwork cast iron bracket. The building has not been inspected.

Local climate

House and G.H. Edwards Newsagents sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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