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
14697
Building Number
24
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
24 Princess Bingo and Social Club
Address
24 Princes Drive
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Colwyn Bay
Town
Locality
Colwyn Bay
Easting
284940
Northing
379143
Street Side
N
Location
Almost opposite the end of Penrhyn Road.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Built by 1932, as a cinema (The Princess Picture House).
Exterior
Interior
Reason for designation
The cinema is a good example of a small picture house which,although simply
planned, exploits a distinctive architectural vocabulary in its main facade, and which retains a contemporary interior of some quality.
Group Description
Princess Bingo and Social Club (Nos 20-24 (even) Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay
Exterior: the cinema is a plain printed brick building with a rendered facade. This is 2-storeyed, and 3 bays, with advanced central range. Glass canopy carried on cast iron columns with ornamental rackets to ground floor. Central entrance (the detail renewed) and shop front incorporating to right (renewed). Above the canopy, the central block is articulated by sunk coupled lotus leaf pilasters, flanking the low-set windows of the first floor, and set in panel with roughcast rendered surround. Splayed fluted cornice and blocking course with eagle in low relief. Paired tall windows in flanking outer bays, in roughcast rendered panels.
Interior: the original Art Deco interior survives almost intact: auditorium with gallery to rear, and stage. Walls articulated by ribbed pilasters. Deco grills over side doors. Neo-Egyptian captitals to fluted columns supporting gallery. Scrolled ribbed beams across ceiling. Some original doors to auditorium and former bar, with stepped grids of glazing, and original ceiling and wall lights in auditorium.
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