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
5611
Building Number
54
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
Bishopsgate Hotel & Restaurant
Address
54 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Beaumaris
Locality
Beaumaris
Easting
260452
Northing
375990
Street Side
Location
On the corner of Castle Street and Steeple Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built probably in the final quarter of the C18, to judge from the evidence of its staircase, and shown as a house on the 1829 town plan. It became a hotel in the second half of the C20.
Exterior
A symmetrical 2½-storey 5-bay Georgian house of scribed roughcast walls, slate roof and roughcast stack to the R. The central entrance has a plain rendered doorcase to a recessed 6-panel door and overlight, and Gothic panelled pilasters. Windows are 12-pane horned sashes under hood moulds. (The 4th bay in the upper storey has a sash window replacing an inserted oriel window recorded in the previous survey.) A central gable has a 12-pane horizontal sliding sash window to the attic. To the L and R are replacement 2-light gabled roof dormers.
The R gable end is pebble-dashed. It has a 12-pane hornless sash window R of centre in the lower storey, and casement window L of centre in the upper storey. The rear is part rendered, part rubble stone, all painted white. A central round-headed radial-glazed small-pane sash window lights the stair. In the upper storey are 12-pane sash windows, horned to the R of centre and hornless to the L of centre. Three gabled roof dormers have top-hung casements. A single-storey lean-to is L of centre. A rear wing on the R side has a lower roof line, two 9-pane sash windows in the upper storey and added lean-to in the lower storey. A lower rubble-stone rear range, shown on the 1829 town plan as a brewhouse, has replacement windows.
Interior
The symmetrical double-depth plan of the original house has survived its conversion to a hotel and restaurant. The room on the R of the entrance hall has fielded wooden panels painted white and plaster cornice. Main rooms have fielded-panel doors. At the rear of the entrance hall is a fine Chinese Chippendale open-well staircase with wreathed handrail and scrolled tread ends. A corridor to the L of the rear of the entrance hall leads to the plainer open-well service stair, with turned balusters and plain newels.
Reason for designation
Listed Grade II* for its special architectural interest as a distinguished and well-preserved C18 town house retaining original character and detail especially the staircase, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Castle Street.
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