Conwy Visitor Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. Visitor center.
Conwy Visitor Centre
- WRENN ID
- dark-floor-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- Visitor center
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Conwy Visitor Centre is a former school building constructed from rubble stone with freestone dressings, topped by a slate roof behind coped gables supported by moulded kneelers and apex finials. It features stone stacks to the right of the center and in the left-hand bay, both having two shafts. The building is single-storeyed with an asymmetrical front that includes an advanced gable on the left and paired advanced gables on the right, with a short projection set back to the right.
The entrance bay, which is recessed to the left of center, has a modern flat-roofed canopy and fascia. It contains two full-height openings that have been infilled with modern glazed doors and overlights. The short return walls to the projecting bays on the left and right feature a Tudor-headed doorway with a studded door on the left side and a window on the right. Each of the three gabled bays has large windows with three stepped lights, the central one being wider and fitted with replacement small-pane glazing.
On the left side wall, there is an original window opening that has been cut down to floor level and fitted with modern plate glass. Set back at the right end is a lean-to porch with a Tudor-headed studded door. Behind this porch, there is a lower one-storey projection that aligns with the entrance bay, featuring a square small-pane window in its gable end and a stone end stack. The end bay side wall behind this projection has an enlarged window raised above the eaves, and the rear gable end includes an inserted escape door and stair.
Inside, there is a large room at the entrance supported by three arched-brace trusses on brackets. The left-hand bay contains an added splayed brick corner fireplace at the rear and is divided into two units by a stone dividing wall, with the projection at the front likely always having been a separate room. To the right of the entrance, there is a chamfered pointed arch leading to the main room and the gabled right-hand bays, which are separated by a stone dividing wall with back-to-back fireplaces. The bay to the right of the entrance features an unequal three-bay arched-brace roof on brackets.
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