3506

 

II  

Designated  

16/03/1976  

06/06/2001  

Tudno Castle Hotel  

 

Conwy  

Llandudno  

 

Llandudno  

278602  

382110  

SE  

On island Site, between Mostyn Broadway and Conway Road. The hotel closes the vista leading to the southern end of Mostyn Street.  

Commercial  

 

Mid Victorian Hotel. Originally two hotels, Tudno Castle, to N, and Temperance Hotel to S.  

Stuccoed hotel building, L-plan. Three storeys and attic with slate hipped roof, moulded eaves cornice, stringcourses and quoins. Gabled dormers with round-headed sash lights, round-headed sash windows with archivolts on second floor. Front elevation of six bays with the main roof forming separate hips over projecting end portions. From R end, first bay of front elevation projects forward with the main roof forming a separate lip over it; pedimented dormer with round-headed sash window, round-headed sash window with archivolt on second floor, storeyed canted three-light window on first and ground floors. The second and third bays are recessed; second bay has a similar round-headed sash window on first floor with impost blocks and triangular pediment and on ground floor, sash window with curved upper corner and main stringcourse forming a triangular pediment over it; third bay has a storeyed canted three-light bay window descending to basement. The fourth, fifth and sixth bays project like the first bay, again with the main roof forming a separate hip over and with the fifth bay projecting further still. On first and ground floors, fourth and sixth bays each have a storeyed canted three-light bay window descending to basement level, the fifth or entrance bay has a round-headed sash window with triangular pediment on first floor and, at ground level, a flight of steps leading up through porch to main entrance; elaborate glass and iron porch with pierced overthrow, cresting and finials. Side elevations of hotel of similar style; 8 bays to Mostyn Broadway (L) and, to (R), splayed corner bay, and then 3 bays to Conway Road.  

 

C19 hotel retaining its character on important free-standing site. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.