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
3461
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
Washington Hotel, East Parade
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llandudno
Town
Locality
Llandudno
Easting
279323
Northing
382083
Street Side
S
Location
On corner with Clarence Road.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
The previous Washington Hotel, built c1885, protruded onto the Parade; the building was re-built in 1925 to align with the road, and the rest of East Parade.
The architect was Arthur Hewitt, 1876-1951, who was Deputy Lieutenant of Caernarfonshire in 1946.
Exterior
Two-storey corner building with stuccoed elevation to East Parade of seven bays. Cornice with modillions and parapet, panelled band. Rusticated ground floor; banded plinth. Projecting end bays, each with a transomed two-light window on first floor and a three-light three-centred transom window on ground floor (R window converted to doorway). Each first floor window with small corbelled balcony before it with balustraded parapet with turned balusters; each window with architrave, entablature, triangular pediment with flanking scrolls. Intermediate five bays with first floor loggia of five semi-circular-headed arches supported on Ionic columns with balustraded parapet to each bay; five three-centred openings on ground floor, central of them a door. Convex corner bay with dome and weather vane; recessed first floor window flanked by paired Ionic columns; below, elliptical-headed doorway also flanked by paired Ionic columns. Right hand return elevation with a two-light transom window above, and a semi-elliptical window below (as front). Lower two-storey wing beyond; 9 windows with central pediment; tripartite window over doorway to centre; 3 windows to each side, then further window to each end, recessed. Elevation to rear of 6 windows in similar style.
Interior
Reason for designation
Well-designed corner building with prominent dome on The Parade. Group Value with adjacent listed buildings.
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