Former Conwy Municipal Offices (Swyddfa Tai Ardal Conwy / Conwy Area Housing Office) is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Commercial premises.
Former Conwy Municipal Offices (Swyddfa Tai Ardal Conwy / Conwy Area Housing Office)
- WRENN ID
- salt-obsidian-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Former Conwy Municipal Offices (Swyddfa Tai Ardal Conwy / Conwy Area Housing Office), Walled Town
- OS grid reference
- SH 782 775
- Coordinates
- 53.28087, -3.82753
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Conwy Municipal Offices, also known as the Conwy Area Housing Office, is a building designed in the Free Gothic style and consists of 2½ storeys. The front features a 2-bay gable end made of random rubble stone, accented with Bath stone freestone dressings and grey rock-faced quoins. It has a slate roof behind a coped gable, which includes three brick stacks and a skylight. The lower storey is set forward, with its roof hidden by a coped parapet.
On the left side, there is a pointed doorway made of freestone, which has a replacement half-glazed door and overlight, sheltered by a gabled hood that breaks through the parapet and is topped with a bold crocketed finial. To the right, there is a 20th-century shop front featuring panelled pilasters and a simple fascia, which includes a recessed half-glazed door and a three-light window. The ground-floor parapet displays a central tablet with borough seals in relief and an inscription of the date.
In the upper storey, there are paired triple windows, each fitted with 2-pane sash windows. Above these windows is a moulded cornice, followed by a broad freestone panel that reads 'Conway Municipal Offices' in raised letters. The attic features paired pointed windows, each with three stepped pointed casements. Above the attic is decorative banding and two narrow loops, along with a central moulded corbel. The coped verge includes a raised freestone apex that is panelled with three blind transomed arches beneath a square head.
On the left side wall, there are 4-pane sash windows in each storey, set in brick surrounds. The right side has three windows, with paired 4-pane sashes on the right and single 4-pane sash windows elsewhere. At the rear, there is a faceted lower two-storey brick wing topped with a hipped slate roof, which also features a 4-pane sash window. The building has been modernised.
Local climate
Former Conwy Municipal Offices (Swyddfa Tai Ardal Conwy / Conwy Area Housing Office) 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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