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
5612
Building Number
56
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
Liverpool Arms Hotel
Address
56 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Beaumaris
Locality
Beaumaris
Easting
260441
Northing
375982
Street Side
Location
Fronting the street in the block of buildings near the W end of Castle Street between Gadlys Lane and Steeple Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A house of c1700, evidence for which is the staircase at the rear. The original building was enlarged and converted to a hotel in the late C18 or early C19, and it is shown as the Liverpool Arms on the 1829 town plan. In 1937 it had a portico and balcony on pairs of turned wooden posts, with balustrade, which has since been replaced. Otherwise the building escaped Victorian remodelling.
Exterior
A 3-storey 7-bay hotel of scribed roughcast, slate roof, and roughcast stacks to the R and to the L of centre in the front roof slope. The central entrance has an open modern porch on square posts, and steps up to a recessed replacement door. The lower and middle storeys have moulded architraves to 18-pane hornless sash windows, with broad and smooth-rendered sill band in the middle storey. Between middle and upper storeys is a raised band with 'Liverpool Arms Hotel' in big raised letters. The upper storey has shorter 6-pane hornless sash windows, of which the 2nd bay is blind and the 4th has horned sashes.
The rear has extensive additions, above which are 2 rendered gabled bays, and some 4-pane and 2-pane sashes, including the stair windows on the R side.
Interior
The interior is modernised, although ground-floor rooms on the L side of the entrance retain panelled shutters. On the L side, at the rear, is an original full-height dog-leg stair with turned balusters, plain square newels and panelled sides.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* for its special architectural interest as a fine Georgian hotel with significant earlier origin and with an especially well-preserved front, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Castle Street.
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