The Old Cockpit, Conwy, Conwy

Coordinates

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

Locality: Walled town

Built-Up Area: Conwy

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Built in the early C19. Used latterly as a chapel of rest.

Exterior

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

Interior has been converted into use as a chapel of rest; cross-beam as in Denbigh Cockpit [Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans].

Reasons for Listing

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.

External Links

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II Alfredo Restaurant
Facing the square at the N end continuous with York Place.
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In a block of commercial and residential buildings at the SW end of High Street.
II Gates and gate piers at entrance to Capel Tabernacl
Fronting the street on the S side of the chapel.
II Capel Tabernacl
Set back from and at near right angles to the street behind a forecourt with gates, and backing on to Chapel Street.
II Pen-y-bryn tea rooms
In a block of commercial and residential buildings at the SW end of High Street.
II Ye Old Mansion House
Fronting the street SW of Plas Mawr.
II 25 Chapel Street
The end of a row of 3 houses opposite Erskine Terrace, and abutting Capel Tabernacl to the SW.
II House and G.H. Edwards Newsagents
Prominently sited at the SW end of High Street, on the corner of Lancaster Square.

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The Old Cockpit

A Grade II* Listed Building in Conwy, Conwy