Gorse Bank and Townstyle is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Shop and house. 1 related planning application.
Gorse Bank and Townstyle
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Shop and house
- Address
- Gorse Bank and Townstyle, 131-3 Station Road, Deganwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 779 791
- Coordinates
- 53.29491, -3.83299
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Gorse Bank and Townstyle is a pair of 2½-storey shop and houses built in the 19th century. The lower storey features rusticated roughcast, while the upper storey is rendered to resemble timber framing. The building is topped with a slate roof that has a central brick stack on the front slope.
Large 2-light shop windows are located on either side of a central recessed shop entrance, which serves Café T'air and Townstyle, and features a half-glazed door. The house entrance is reached via stone steps and has an outer half-glazed panel door. Beyond this entrance, there is a doorway with a boarded door and an overlight that has been boarded up, leading to a passage that provides access to the rear premises at No 129.
On the first floor, there is an outer window and an inner oriel window, both of which have been replaced in their original openings, along with a gabled roof-dormer window.
A cast iron veranda spans across Nos 131, 137, and 143, consisting of 6 bays. The veranda features round posts, with the lower parts fluted and adorned with Corinthian capitals. It includes foliage brackets with rosettes, a foliage openwork fascia, and brattishing with corner finials. In the third bay, the fascia is designed as an iron grille displaying the name '[D]EGANWY' in raised letters, along with a crest and a panel that reads 'J E JONES'. The sixth bay also has a similar crest, but the original name panel has been removed.
The building has not been inspected.
Local climate
Gorse Bank and Townstyle 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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