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.
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
74 Mostyn Street
Location
Part of a group of buildings between corner with Lloyd Street and corner with Market Street.
History
No 74 was formerly the Prince's Theatre, then cinema. Built 1864 as St George's Hall.
Exterior
Former hall and theatre, now shop. Three-storey building, higher than flanking buildings. Steeply-pitched slate roofs; stucco front with projecting end bays. Eaves cornice with toothing and modillions. Series of small blocked segmental headed openings below. Recessed central bay with 4 segmentally-headed windows; balcony in front of this with iron balustrade with its top rail incorporating lions’ heads and a Greek key pattern. Each end bay with one segmental headed window of two-lights. Stringcourses at sill and impost levels. Large later C20 plate glass shop front on ground floor.
Reason for designation
Part of a good group of C19 buildings in town's most important shopping street. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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