Knights Gone By (also known as Plas Fardre) is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 6 May 1970. House.
Knights Gone By (also known as Plas Fardre)
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1970
- Type
- House
- Address
- Knights Gone By (also known as Plas Fardre), Walled Town
- OS grid reference
- SH 783 775
- Coordinates
- 53.28069, -3.82652
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Knights Gone By, also known as Plas Fardre, is a 4-bay, 3-storey house built in a simple Gothic style. The exterior features whitened scribed roughcast with smooth-rendered angle pilaster strips painted black, and a steep slate roof adorned with barge boards and pendant finials. The main façade has three gabled bays, with a fourth bay set back on the left side.
The symmetrical main range includes a narrower central bay that has half-glazed doors set back under an overlight, framed by a doorcase with a moulded cornice and consoles, along with a small painted fascia. This central entrance is flanked by two-storey canted bay windows, each fitted with replacement 2-light casement windows. Above the entrance, the first floor features a 2-light casement window set in a moulded architrave. The upper storey has shorter 2-light windows with eared architraves.
To the left, the set-back bay contains a double-panelled door with a boarded-up overlight at the junction with the main range. The first floor of this bay has a 2-light window with an architrave similar to that of the front. The left gable end of this bay features a tall small-pane window and a 2-light upper-storey window, both in architraves that match the front. Adjacent to this bay, the gable end of the main range has a renewed panel door. The right gable end has been altered, featuring a one-storey flat-roof projection and inserted 2-light windows. The rear of the building has three windows, which have been replaced in earlier openings, with gables at both ends.
The property has not been inspected.
Local climate
Knights Gone By (also known as Plas Fardre) 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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