Plas Mawr

PricingFree with English Heritage membershipEH memberFree entryNon-member£10.40

EH members: half price, then freeInfo

Half price, then free, for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. English Heritage members pay half the standard admission during their first year of membership and get free entry once they have renewed. Show your current membership card at admissions.

Cadw's own members, and Historic Scotland and Manx National Heritage members, get the same arrangement in reverse.
Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Most Cadw sites are unstaffed and free to everyone; the arrangement matters at the staffed castles, abbeys and houses that charge.

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Entry

Non-member prices

Adult£10.40

Junior (aged 5 to 17) or student£7.20

Senior (aged 65 and over)£9.30

Family (2 adults and up to 3 children)£33.30

Family (1 adult and up to 3 children)£22.90

Pricing details

Standard walk-up price from the 1 September 2026 to 31 March 2027 table (the house is closed 2 November to 28 February); booking online saves 5% (non-refundable). A joint ticket with Castell Conwy (adult £16.30, usable at both in one day) excludes partner membership discounts. Blue Light Card holders and HM Armed Forces and veterans get 10% off on the day. Disabled visitors and one companion enter free. Cadw's £1 ticket is available online to people on Universal Credit and other named benefits. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Students must show photo ID; under-5s free. Joint ticket with Castell Conwy £11.40. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Joint ticket with Castell Conwy £14.60. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Children under 5 are free. Joint ticket with Castell Conwy £52.20 (no partner membership discount on joint tickets). English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Children under 5 are free. Joint ticket with Castell Conwy £35.90. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

ParkingPay to park

No car park; nearest is Vicarage Gardens council pay and display by the castle, 160 m, £2.50 an hour to £7.50 for 4 hours. Not a Trust car park, so membership does not cover it.

Parking details

Plas Mawr has no parking of its own. Cadw names Vicarage Gardens on Rose Hill Street, the council pay and display by the castle visitor centre (98 spaces, 10 disabled bays, a flat, even walk of about 160 m), as the nearest car park: 1 hour £2.50, 2 hours £4, 4 hours £7.50, night £5 (August £3, £5, £9 and £6), no 24-hour stay. Market Place (LL32 8HT) and Mount Pleasant (LL32 8NY) are other council car parks within a few minutes' walk. There is limited short-stay parking on the High Street, and Cadw's access guide says two accessible roadside spaces adjoin the monument (its place page says there are none).

Driving pin: Cadw's own marker at the High Street gatehouse, where tickets are sold; the Google listing is 1 m away. The pin is kept here rather than at Vicarage Gardens so the house and the castle do not share one point on the map. By road: Conwy via the A55 or B5106. National Cycle Network route 5 passes 150 m away.

By rail: Conwy station, 600 m, or Llandudno Junction, 2 km, on the Crewe to Llandudno Junction and Holyhead line. By bus: route 5, Caernarfon to Conwy and Llandudno, 200 m.

About

Plas Mawr, the Great Hall, is quite simply the finest surviving Elizabethan town house in Britain, says Cadw, which cares for it in the walled town of Conwy. Robert Wynn, who had served Tudor diplomats at Europe's royal courts, bought a mansion here for £200 and between 1576 and 1585 turned it into a celebration of his life and wealth; his initials appear all over the vividly painted ornamental plasterwork. The High Street gatehouse only hints at what lies within: visitors climb through terraces to 17 rooms, including the hall, the Great Chamber, the kitchen and the brewhouse, furnished as they might have looked in 1665, with a lookout tower up a ladder-like stair and a recreated Elizabethan garden. Later a courthouse, a school and an art gallery, it was restored over four years. Reviewers say the plasterwork is the highlight, the staff hand out a good map, the tower climb is worth it and the joint ticket with Castell Conwy, 300 m away, is good value.

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Plas Mawr09:30 – 16:00last admission 15:15

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open 1 March to 30 September 9.30am to 5pm and 1 October to 1 November 9.30am to 4pm, daily; closed for the winter from 2 November to 28 February (apart from ticketed events such as Santa's Elizabethan Grotto). Last admission 45 minutes before closing.

Terrain level 2, easy, but a town-centre house with many steps: tickets are sold in the small gift shop in the High Street gatehouse, then about 30 m of cobbles and a flight of steps lead to the main house, with wheelchair access to parts of the ground floor by a side entrance on request (ask in the shop or call 01492 573605); three floors of wooden stairs and uneven floors, high thresholds, low doorways and low roof trusses in the attic, and a steep ladder-style stair to the observation tower; the garden is on two levels with steps to the upper tier; rooms may be dim in winter. Toilets with an accessible toilet and baby changing. Audio tour, portable induction loop, defibrillator, exhibition and video presentation, gift shop with guidebooks, tables and chairs in the courtyard for picnics; no cafe. Licensed for civil ceremonies. Drones are not permitted.

Photo: Plas Mawr's limewashed walls, stepped gables and octagonal tower with its weathervane, seen from a courtyard under a clear blue sky. Stephen Colebourne, CC BY 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plas_Mawr,_Conwy_(14634708957).jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.