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
14283
Building Number
90
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
90 High Street
Address
90 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhyl
Town
Locality
Easting
300913
Northing
381337
Street Side
W
Location
Near the corner with Kinmel Street, next to the Alexandra Public House.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built as a pair of shops between 1861 and 1871.
Exterior
Three storeyed, 4-window range. Lined-out render, rusticated to ground floor, with concrete tiled roof and gable end stacks, truncated to right-hand gable. Two-storey shop front, the ground floor has paired central entrances recessed in splayed lobby, and 2-light shop windows, almost floor length with low stall-boards, and slim cast-iron mullions with decorated capitals dividing the windows, which are canted towards the entrances. Panelled pilasters to either side, and heavy ornate moulded brackets at each end of the fascia, which continues across left-hand doorway originally giving access to upper floors. First floor has unusual continuous display-window, a shallow canted bay with round arched narrow lights beneath moulded cornice. Fluted pilasters to either side. To the right of the shop front, is a round-arched doorway with fanlight in inset architrave with fluted columns. Above this is a canted oriel bay window with 2-pane sashes and moulded cornice following the line of the display-window cornice. Two-pane sashes in upper storey, in stressed architraves with keystones. Modillion eaves cornice.
Interior
Reason for designation
A rare surviving example of a late C19 shop, which retains its richly detailed 2-storey front.
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