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. Office.
Former Conwy Municipal Offices (Swyddfa Tai Ardal Conwy / Conwy Area Housing Office)
- WRENN ID
- distant-parapet-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Office
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Free Gothic style offices of 2½ storeys. Its 2-bay gable end front is of random rubble stone with Bath stone freestone dressings and grey rock-faced quoins, and has a slate roof behind coped gable, with 3 brick stacks and skylight. In the front the lower storey is brought forward, its roof concealed by a coped parapet. On the L side is a freestone pointed doorway with replacement half-glazed door and overlight, under a gabled hood breaking through the parapet and with a bold crocketed finial. To its R is a C20 shop front with panelled pilasters and simple fascia. It has a recessed half-glazed door, R of which is a 3-light window. The ground-floor parapet has a central tablet with borough seals in relief, and the date inscription. In the upper storey are paired triple windows, each with 2-pane sash. Above is a moulded cornice, then a broad freestone panel reading 'Conway Municipal Offices' in raised letters. The attic has paired pointed windows each with 3 stepped pointed casements. Above it is banding and 2 narrow loops, and a central moulded corbel. The coped verge has a raised freestone apex panelled with 3 blind transomed arches under a square head. In the L side wall are 4-pane sash windows in each storey, in brick surrounds. The 3-window R side has paired 4-pane sashes on the R side, otherwise single 4-pane sash windows. Further behind is a faceted lower 2-storey brick rear wing under a hipped slate roof, with 4-pane sash window.
Modernised.
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