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
14337
Building Number
75
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
75 West Parade
Address
75 West Parade
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhyl
Town
Locality
Easting
300158
Northing
381166
Street Side
Location
The terrace faces the sea and runs between River Street and Butterton Road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in stages to form a terrace of purpose-designed boarding houses, and dated 1889.
Exterior
Yellow brick with red brick and stone dressings, and Welsh slate roofs (replaced with concrete tiles to No 75). End wall stacks with red brick bands, lost or reduced in height in Nos 71 and 75. Comprises a terrace of 5 double-fronted villas, 3 storeyed with basement and attics, and 3-storeyed wings to rear. Each has central entrance with steep gables to either side. Entrances in ornate timber gabled porches, with some original doors surviving - in No 73, the 4-panelled door has shouldered glazed upper panels, and in No 74, deep moulding to 8 panels, the upper pair glazed. 3-storeyed canted bay windows to either side of entrances also run through basement storey and are ornamented with raised terracotta panels. These are a characteristic feature of seaside boarding houses and served the principal drawing rooms on each floor, typically located at the front of the house to command the sea view. Paired windows in attic storey beneath the gables. 2-pane sash windows throughout, linked across the whole terrace by continuous sill bands and stone cornice bands. Paired gables have pronounced bargeboards, originally with free-standing collar and king-post trusses, and finials. The finials largely survive, but the trusses are lost in all but No 74. Deep terracotta, tile and brick eaves bands. Basement areas originally had decorative cast-iron railings between squat chamfered stone gate posts; the railings surveive at No 74.
The terrace is of exceptional interest as a purpose-built boarding house development which retains almost all its original detail. The best example of its type in Rhyl, it shows the characteristic multi-storeyed form with prominent bay windows, which served as a model for the sea-side boarding house in the later C19.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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