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
14319
Building Number
16
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
16 Water Street
Address
16 Water Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhyl
Town
Locality
Easting
300674
Northing
381365
Street Side
W
Location
On the S corner with Bideford Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Probably one of the earliest building to survive in this part of the town centre, and dating the first phase of Rhyl's development as a town, between c1836 and c1850. Originally built as a house, but converted to shops during the later C19 (c1870).
Exterior
Rendered, with slate roof, coped gables and end wall and axial stacks, 3 window range to Water Street, with 3 window lower wing to Bedford Street. Shop front advanced from ground floor, with the fascia carried onfluted cast iron columns either side of central paired doorways, supported canted oriel sash windows above the entrance. Shop windows form rectangular bays to either side of doorways, and the left hand window retain early C20 leaded upper lights. Smaller windows to right hand unit, which has corner entrance. 12-pane sash windows to either side of central oriel window above, in shaped plaster architraves. Corner entrance to right hand shop. Fascia articulated bu heavy fluted console brackets, continues across gable and rear wing on Bedford Street elevation, over a further shop front in similar style. 12-pane sash windows above, and blind central window.
Interior
Reason for designation
A rare example of an early C19 building from the earliest phase of Rhyl's urban development, which has special character from its later C19 use as a shop.
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