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
3495
Building Number
1  
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/03/1976  
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001  
Name of Property
1 Vaughan Street  
Address
1 Vaughan Street  

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Llandudno  
Town
Llandudno  
Locality
 
Easting
278459  
Northing
381985  
Street Side
SE  
Location
On corner with Oxford Road.  

Description


Broad Class
Domestic  
Period
 

History
1897; designed by G A Humphreys, architect and agent to the Mostyn Estate, as a "corner shop and residence". The building formerly had a cast iron veranda, three bays to Oxford Road; fluted columns with capitals and spandrels and cresting; one bay on corner and three again to Vaughan Street.  

Exterior
Three storeys and attic with octagonal corner bay. Northern European Renaissance style. Pebbledash walls; painted dressings. Sash windows without glazing bars (mainly replaced in Oxford Road). Plate glass shop front on ground floor. Oxford Road elevation has, firstly two bays; right hand bay with paired sash window with shouldered architrave, pilasters and pediment; paired sash window with shouldered architrave, canted three-light bay window on first floor. Left hand bay with panel dated '1897'. To R of this, in Oxford Road, lower section with paired windows, and first floor oriel to R. Semi-octagonal corner bay; octagonal attic storey with sash lights flanked by consoles and surmounted by octagonal cupola with finial. Eaves cornice. Second and first floor sash lights with moulded architraves and pilasters; first floor centre light with gable. Vaughan Street elevation with paired attic window in aedicule; centre window mullion rises to gable and is surmounted by ball finial. Storeyed canted three-light bay window on second and first floors with sash lights without glazing bars and with parapet. On ground floor, at left hand end, round-headed doorway with pilasters and archivolt. Modernised shopfront with windows to Vaughan Street and Oxford Road.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
One of a good group of late C19 buildings by G A Humphreys, Mostyn Estate architect who defined character of late C19/early C20 Llandudno. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.  

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