23594

 

II  

Designated  

20/07/2000  

20/07/2000  

World Choice Travel  

 

Denbighshire  

Denbigh  

 

Denbigh - Town  

305271  

366122  

E  

Prominently sited on the corner with Vale Street.  

Commercial  

 

Accomplished late C19 commercial block of 2 sections. This represents the only known shop premises designed by Richard Lloyd Williams, architect of Denbigh. It was built for Clwyd Pierce in 1887 as a delicatessen with shop and incorporated warehouse. The brick and terracotta work was provided by J C Edwards of Ruabon and the builder was J Simon Roberts of Plough Inn, Denbigh; the shop fittings are recorded as having been by J Parnell and Sons of Bristol.  

 

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.  

Listed for its special interest as a fine example of late C19 commercial architecture in favoured Flemish mercantile Gothic idiom, with good terracotta detailing. Group value with other listed items in Crown Square and Vale Street.  

World Choice Travel and Shagor Tandoori Takeaway The Left-hand part (currently the Shagor Takeaway) is designed in Flemish Renaissance town-house style, whilst its neighbour (World Choice Travel) is in eclectic Gothic style. Red brick and terracotta construction with particularly fine detailing; continuous slate roof, rounded at the corner with Vale Street; decorative ridge tiles to Shagor Takeaway section (L) and raised decorative iron work to World Travel (R); central chimney with panelled and laced decoration and moulded cornice. World Choice Travel is essentially a 3-bay corner premises on 3 storeys and faces Crown Square to the L, Vale Street to the R and has a rounded central bay to the corner. The ground floor originally had a Gothic arcuated shop front of stone, though this was replaced between 1925 and 1933 by the present plain shop front during alterations by Hepworth's Tailoring. This consists of a central recessed entrace (in the rounded corner) with large 2-part shop windows to the L and R returns; glazed modern door. Modern fascia (superimposed over earlier one) and original modillion cornice above. The upper floors have paired windows to the first and second floors recessed in 3 vertical, full-height bays which terminate in twin Gothic arches. The first floor windows have depressed ogee heads whilst those to the second have pointed arches; roll-moulded jambs. Plain sashes with decorative leaded upper lights to the first floor and cusped Gothic upper lights to the second floor. A continuous shaft with base, 3 shaft rings and a Gothic capital rises through the 2 storeys to divide each pair in each bay and form the central springing point of the upper arches; shared moulded labels with foliated stops. Between the floors are fine foliated terracotta relief panels, laced through to L and R with moulded string courses to top and bottom. The left-hand, Crown Square-facing bay has a loading bay on each floor to its L, both with complex depressed ogee heads. The smaller first floor one is plain-glazed, whilst the larger second floor one retains its panelled door with paired Gothic lights to the top. Heavy modillion cornice with relief bosses to the roof. The Shagor Takeaway has a three-and-a-half storey 3-bay gabled elevation. The ground floor has modern part-glazed shop front, though retains the original cast iron Gothic colonnettes dividing the central entrance bay from the broader flanking bays; plain fascia, chamfered stone plinth. The first and second floors have cross-windows to the broader central bay and tall windows to the narrower flanking bays; plain C20 glazing. The windows are segmentally arched, with those to the centre having carved head keystones of terracotta. The bays are divided vertically by full-height brick pilasters which rise through a heavy cornice above the upper floor to terminate in geometric finials (the outer ones are missing). Below the cornice is a continuous moulded stringcourse with horizontal recessed panels between the two. Similar treatment between the floors, with decorative terracotta relief panels. Flemish gable to the central bay with surmounting pediment and finial; 2-part segmentally-arched window with small-pane upper lights and a moulded label with carved head keystone.