Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14279
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
Crescent Public House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhyl
Town
Locality
Easting
300544
Northing
381355
Street Side
NE
Location
On the E corner with Crescent Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A building on this site was sketched in on a map of 1852, but does not seem to have been built until c1861-1871. Initially it seems to have comprised a pair of houses, with the corner building used as a public house from the outset, but the two properties were probably combined in the later C19. Present public house frontage to ground floor may date from c1880.
Exterior
Roughcast render with smooth-rendered dressings including quoins and decorative panelling to bay windows; slate roof, three-storeys, 5 window range to Edward Henry Street, narrow angled corner with entrance, and 3-window range to Crescent Road. Main Public House frontage has corner doorway and flanking square windows in return elevations to either side, all linked by fascia carried on heavy console brackets. Doorcase inset with fluted columns to architrave. Blind round-arched window over doorway, in 2-storeyed with reeded head. Edward Henry Street elevation has 2 2-storeyed canted bay windows flanking what were originally probably both doorways when the building comprised 2 separate properties. Left-hand opening now a window, with similar windows between and above the bays on upper floors. Surviving doorway has entablature carried on ornate console brackets. Oriel bay windows over public house frontage to either side of angled entrance. Two further 2-storeyed canted bay windows to Crescent Road elevation. Windows are all 2-pane sashes with margin lights, rendered architraves, and continuous hood moulds. Modillion eaves band.
A building characteristic of Rhyl’s urban development in the period c1860-70, enriched to distinguish its commercial purpose. It is of a typical example of a later C19 neighbourhood public house building, which uses distinctive detail applied to an ordinary house plan, rather than a special building plan.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 13-15 Crescent Road.
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