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
14679
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Royal Bank of Scotland
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Colwyn Bay
Town
Locality
Colwyn Bay
Easting
284797
Northing
379070
Street Side
N
Location
On the corner with Wynnstay Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built in 1931 for William’s Deacons Bank to replace an earlier building on the site, and designed by S Colwyn Foulkes, architect of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
White ashlar facing, and hipped slate roof with axial stacks. 2 storeys, 7 window range with central entrance in Ionic portico in antis. Secondary entrance to right, in high architrave. Tripartite sash window over the main entrance, flanked by blank panels. Other windows are 9-pane sashes, elongated and in architraves with brackets to sills to ground floor. 4-window return to Wynnstay Road. Plain frieze and blocking course.
Interior
Reason for designation
A sophisticated exercise in the academic neo-classicism often considered appropriate for bank buildings in the earlier C20.
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