Contessa is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 February 1993. Commercial.
Contessa
- WRENN ID
- eastward-panel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1993
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- Contessa, Llanrwst
- OS grid reference
- SH 798 616
- Coordinates
- 53.13809, -3.7978
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Contessa is a three-storey building featuring rendered walls with raised banding and lugged architraves around the windows. It has horned sash windows and a slate roof. The north elevation includes two windows on each of the upper floors, with the second-floor windows positioned at the eaves. The building has a rounded corner, and the east elevation also has two windows on each of the upper floors, with the second-floor windows again set at the eaves; the left windows are narrower. The ground floor has a later 19th-century shopfront, with a door set back at the corner (featuring an overlight above) and two windows on each side. The ends of the fascia board are decorated with volutes and there are end pilasters. To the left of the east elevation, there is a four-panelled door with an overlight.
Local climate
Contessa sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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