Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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