Entrance range of Conwy Public Library is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 October 1981. House.
Entrance range of Conwy Public Library
- WRENN ID
- waning-clay-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Entrance range of Conwy Public Library, Walled Town
- OS grid reference
- SH 782 776
- Coordinates
- 53.28173, -3.82831
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The entrance range of Conwy Public Library is a Gothic style, two-storey structure that was originally part of the former town hall. It is built of snecked rubble with freestone dressings and quoins, topped with a steep hipped slate roof that features a moulded stone cornice and prominent ironwork cresting. The Castle Street side has angle buttresses on the lower storey. The entrance consists of a wide pointed arch with a hood mould, which has modern glazed doors and panels inserted. To the right of the entrance is a two-light mullioned window with round-headed lights, and to the left is a similar single-light window. On the upper storey, there is a five-light mullioned and transomed window with round-headed lights, the central light of which is raised and also has a hood mould. A central coped dormer features a boarded-up round window.
A square corner turret on the first floor is corbelled out on a freestone arcaded frieze, with additional corbels at the angles below a string course that runs continuously with the eaves cornice of the main building. The turret has narrow louvres beneath a steep swept pyramidal roof, and a string course above the adjacent window on the Castle Street elevation acts as a hood mould.
On the High Street elevation, there is a single-light window on the lower storey, two similar windows on the first floor, and a larger two-light mullioned window on the upper left. An angle buttress to the left supports a corbelled former first-floor stack that has been reduced to eaves level. Further back, there is a six-bay range that remains in its original form on the lower storey, while the upper storey has been replaced with concrete.
Inside, the entrance hall features two double-chamfered arches, with joist-beam ceilings supported by ovolo-moulded cross beams. The interior has otherwise been modernised.
Local climate
Entrance range of Conwy Public Library 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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