Aberconwy House
Os Grid ref:-SH7877
Characterful Aberconway House, located in Conwy's main Castle Street,
is a medieval merchant's house which dates to the fourteenth century and is to be the only medieval merchant's house in Conwy to have survived the town's turbulent history. The house is the oldest recorded dwelling of its kind anywhere in Wales.
The building has a timber-framed upper storey picturesquely jutting over a stone-built lower storey and basement. The upper storey is believed to have been completed in the fifteenth century. Aberconway House is now in the care of the National Trust.
Well furnished rooms and an eight minute audio-visual presentation vividly depict daily life from different periods of the house's history. Aberconway House is decorated in the style of three different periods in history. The impressive great loft upstairs is Jacobean in style, while some rooms are Georgian in appearance. The house formed part of a temperance hotel in the nineteenth century, and accordingly there is a bedroom decorated in the Victorian style.
Aberconwy House once belonged to various English merchants who traded with the Welsh - who were not allowed to live within the walls of Conwy, its first owner being recorded as Evan David.
There is limited electric lighting which makes the house dark on dull days. Its rooms are reputed to be haunted.
The building also contains a National Trust shop in the basement.
Opening Times
House
25th March - 29th October 11.00am - 5.00pm Wednesday to Monday.
Shop
1st to 24th March10.00am - 5.00pm Daily, Sunday open at 11.00am
25th March to 29th October -10.00am - 5.30pm Daily, Sunday open at 11.00am.
30th October to 31st December10.00am - 5.00pm Daily, Sunday open at 11.00am.
January to February 200711.00am - 5.00pm Wednesday to Sunday open at 11.00am on Sunday.