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
25748
Building Number
170
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/09/2001
Date of Amendment
12/09/2001
Name of Property
Presents With A Difference
Address
170 High Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Prestatyn
Town
Locality
Prestatyn
Easting
306708
Northing
382716
Street Side
W
Location
On the west side of High Street, at right of centre of a terrace of shops situated between Maes-y-groes and Fern Avenue.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The two shopfronts at the centre of the terrace of shops appear to be survivors of an original set of four. They may date from before the Great War, when much of the upper part of High Street was in course of redevelopment, but more probably from c1925. A photograph of one of the shopfronts (no.174), then belonging to a milliner's shop, appears in a Carnival Magazine of that date.
Exterior
First floor has oriel window offset to right, flanked by 2-light windows, all with transoms.
Interior
Reason for designation
One of two shops notable for retention of early C20 shopfronts in high quality materials and featuring craftsmanship of a high standard.
Group Description
170 & 174 High Street, Prestatyn
Two shops with similar shopfronts at the centre of a terrace of four. Brick with stone dressings, shallow pitched slate roof concealed by high parapet. The design maximises the amount of display visible externally. There is in each shopfront an island display case centrally and one display case to each side, the latter cases carried inwards and then angled to meet the door at the rear of the island case, so that shoppers can enter at either side. The display cases stand on a masonry plinth about 500 mm high. The side cases have a thin moulded transom at high level and glazing above, but the island case is flat-roofed at top. The main glazing below the transom level is in straight and curved panes of plate glass with decorative thin uprights between panes. Leaded obscured glazing above transom, with art nouveau features. Above there is a deep fascia for the shop name inclined forwards above boxing. Small coloured floor tiles laid in patterns.
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