Latitude: 53.2811 / 53°16'51"N
Longitude: -3.8304 / 3°49'49"W
OS Eastings: 278056
OS Northings: 377575
OS Grid: SH780775
Mapcode National: GBR 1ZPH.JJ
Mapcode Global: WH654.4S7J
Plus Code: 9C5R75J9+CR
Entry Name: The Old Cockpit
Listing Date: 23 September 1950
Last Amended: 5 May 2006
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3367
Building Class: Recreational
ID on this website: 300003367
Location: Set back from the street and reached by a path to the side of Alfredo Restaurant.
County: Conwy
Town: Conwy
Community: Conwy
Community: Conwy
Locality: Walled town
Built-Up Area: Conwy
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Building
Built in the early C19. Used latterly as a chapel of rest.
A circular cockpit with straight chord on the SE side, of 2-storey height, with pebble-dashed brick walls and 5 windows, under a conical slate roof, from which some slates were missing at the time of survey. The SW front has an added gabled porch with panel door. Above and to its R are 2 small-pane windows inserted into deeper original openings that retain original wooden lintels and stone sills. The L side is overgrown. The rear retains 2 round-headed small-pane sash windows with Gothic intersecting glazing bars, of which the L-hand is above an inserted boarded door. To the R, above a lean-to against the vestry of Tabernacl, is a similar but shortened window retaining its intersecting glazing bars over an inserted top-hung casement.
Interior has been converted into use as a chapel of rest; cross-beam as in Denbigh Cockpit [Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans].
Listed grade II* for its special architectural and social-historical interest as a rare surviving town-centre cockpit, and for group value within the historical townscape.
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