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
488
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/08/1991
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
Hotel Victoria
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Holywell
Easting
318730
Northing
375770
Street Side
Location
Detached, facing NW down the High Street; Halkyn Street to right.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Built in 1837, then known as the King's Arms Posting House, and rebuilt in 1901.
Exterior
3-storey with hipped slate roofs and red brick chimney stacks. Provincial late-Victorian Classical 5-bay symmetrical front; painted roughcast. Robust detailing including quoins and deep toothed red brick cornices to the stepped parapet which is finished in stock brick coping and terracotta ball finials (missing to right); lettering to parapet. Sill bands to 1st and 2nd floors and cornice and plinth to channelled ground floor. Mostly horned sash windows without glazing bars; moulded architraves with keystones. Dominant porch, spanning 3 bays, with paired and panelled pilasters and balustraded parapet with bosses, urns and low segmental pediment; half-glazed camber arched doorway. The main parapet returns around the left side for 1-bay; 3-storey, 3-window cross range beyond with quoins, sill bands and channelled ground floor; tripartite small-pane sash windows with architraves; doorways to left. Small-pane sashes to right hand side and rendered rear with quoins.
Interior
Internally there is a similar style reception room to 1st floor.
Reason for designation
Included for its dominant group value in the townscape.
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