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
14852
Building Number
415
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/09/1994
Date of Amendment
09/09/1994
Name of Property
415 Abergele Road
Address
415 Abergele Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Old Colwyn
Town
Locality
Old Colwyn
Easting
286913
Northing
378263
Street Side
N
Location
In the block between Cefn Road and Princess Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The terrace of shops with accommodation over was in the process of development on the second edition OS map of 1899-1900. This shows the building on the corner of Princess Road and 3 adjacent properties (Nos 411-425), together with the building which forms the left hand end of the terrace (No399-401). The strongly unified design of the terrace suggests that it was designed as a piece, though built in separate phases.
Exterior
Nos 399-415: 6 shops, each given separate emphasis by a crow-stepped main gable, and a similar smaller gable over a subsidiary bay. Ground floor shop fronts largely renewed, though pavement canopies survive to Nos 413 and 415. Timber canted oriel windows to first floor in each main gable, with slate roofs, and 2-pane sash windows on each floor in the lesser gables. Main gables also have 2-pane sash windows in their apexes.
Interior
Reason for designation
Nos 399-415 represent an ambitious commercial development on an urban scale, using a distinctive local feature of crow-stepped gables to create a strong architectural rhythm while emphasising individual units in the row.
Forms a group with Midland Bank (No 397).
Group Description
Nos 399-425 Abergele Road with 1 Princess Road, Old Colwyn.
The group comprises a large building on the corner of Princess Road (Nos 417-425) which was probably the first to be built, probably originally as a single shop with accommodation. A terrace of 6 shops with accommodation over now subdivided as 2 shops and accommodation. A terrace of 6 shops with accommodation adjoins it, stepped down and sloping site. Rock-faced coursed and squared rubble with ashlar dressings throughout, slate roofs with red tiled cresting. Nos 417-425 have stone axial stacks, the adjoining terrace has brick end wall stacks.
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