Ye Old College, Yr Hen Coleg (D. Wyn Roberts Ltd, Tailors, and 1-3 College Court) is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 September 1950. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
Ye Old College, Yr Hen Coleg (D. Wyn Roberts Ltd, Tailors, and 1-3 College Court)
- WRENN ID
- third-lantern-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 September 1950
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Ye Old College, Yr Hen Coleg (D. Wyn Roberts Ltd, Tailors, and 1-3 College Court), 20 Castle Street, Walled Town, LL32 8AY
- OS grid reference
- SH 782 775
- Coordinates
- 53.28096, -3.82764
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ye Old College, also known as Yr Hen Coleg, is a building that includes a 2-storey single-bay original house on the right side and a taller, narrower 3-storey 19th-century bay on the left side. The walls are rendered and roughcast beneath a steep slate roof with overhanging eaves. The original house features high-quality timber-framing in its upper storey, which includes chevron bracing. It also has ribbed coving from a former double oriel window, with ogee arches and blind tracery on the outer sides of the coving, and a central heraldic shield surrounded by birds and a smaller shield. The window now has modern 3-light steel-framed casements, with a beam above that may be the tie beam of a former gable.
The lower storey has a mid-20th-century shop front that spans both bays, featuring a low stall riser and a simple deep black fascia. The plate glass shop windows have thin stainless steel frames and include a central island, leading to a central glazed door and overlight with a terrazzo floor. The left-hand bay has a wood-framed cross window on the first floor and a 2-light pointed window with Y-tracery on the second floor. The left side wall contains a 4-pane sash window on both the first and second floors. At the rear, there is a 2-storey wing that has been converted into separate apartments, featuring replacement windows.
Although not inspected, it is reported by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales that the original house retains an arched-brace truss with a curved collar beam and windbraces that are concealed by plaster.
Local climate
Ye Old College, Yr Hen Coleg (D. Wyn Roberts Ltd, Tailors, and 1-3 College Court) 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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