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Plas Porth Uchaf

A Grade II Listed Building in Conwy, Conwy

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2803 / 53°16'48"N

Longitude: -3.8326 / 3°49'57"W

OS Eastings: 277909

OS Northings: 377487

OS Grid: SH779774

Mapcode National: GBR 1ZPH.1T

Mapcode Global: WH654.3T64

Plus Code: 9C5R75J8+4X

Entry Name: Plas Porth Uchaf

Listing Date: 8 October 1981

Last Amended: 5 May 2006

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 3366

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300003366

Location: On the corner of Upper Gate Street just N of the town wall at porth Uchaf.

County: Conwy

Town: Conwy

Community: Conwy

Community: Conwy

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Conwy

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

A late C18 or early C19 house first shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.

Exterior

A 2½-storey single-fronted house of whitened pebble-dashed walls, with smooth-rendered black-painted plinth, architraves, 1st-floor sill band and angle pilasters. The roof is slate, with roughcast stack to the L. The entrance on the R side is reached up 2 slate steps, and has a replacement door under an earlier overlight. The surround is pedimented with fleur-de-lis attached finial. Windows are 12-pane hornless sash in the ground floor, 9-pane to the 1st floor.

In the L gable end is a 9-pane sash window in the ground floor, and a small steel-framed attic casement window offset to the R. The rear is rubble stone, with an outshut on the L side. The main range has a 1st-floor 9-pane hornless sash window on the R side.

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a small town house retaining definite C19 character, and for its contribution to the historical townscape.

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