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.
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
Ambassador Hotel, Glan-y-Mor Parade
Location
On corner with St George's Place.
History
Built c1860. Formerly the Brinkburn Hotel, the building has gradually taken in units on Glan-y-Mor Parade and St George's Place (the Richmond Hotel, formerly listed separately). Entrance in St George's Place.
Exterior
Hotel; stucco, slate roofs. Corner block has hipped slate roof with modern attic window strip. Facing sea, 3rd floor with three sash windows with pilasters. Three round-headed sash windows on second floor. On first floor two storeyed canted bay windows descend to ground level. Glazed veranda of c1933. Left return elevation to St George’s Place: modern attic window strip. Paired windows in each outer bay on third and second floors. Each outer first floor bay with storeyed canted three light bay window with triangular pediment over centre first floor light. Centre first floor window is segmental headed and has pilasters and segmental pediment. Doorway in centre ground floor bay with half columns, entablature and triangular pediment. Glazed veranda, before right hand bay which continues round corner (see above). To L, slightly recessed, a further 6 window block, 3 storeys and attic. Gabled dormers (but strip dormer over R 2 bays), bracketed eaves, round-headed sash windows to 2nd floor. On first floor, paired round-headed windows and 2 canted bay windows dropping down. Doorway in R bay of this block; ground floor of rest covered by glazed verandah.
Facing sea, to R of corner block, 4-storey 2-window block, recessed; 2 sash windows on 2nd and 3rd floors; on first floor, plain sash window to R, and to L, canted bay window which drops down; on ground floor, to R, round-headed doorway, now window.
Reason for designation
Mid C19 building forming part of the sea front, the most important part of the planned Victorian seaside resort of Llandudno. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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