Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
7 Abergele Road
Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, designated on 25 July 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Locality
- Colwyn Bay
- Community
- Colwyn Bay
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29496, -3.72694
- Cadw reference
- 14664
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1900 · Denbighshire Sheet III.NE (National Library of Scotland)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Towards the corner with station road.
History
Built in 1930 and designed by S Colwyn Foulkes, architect, of Colwyn Bay.
Exterior
Ashlar face; a high 2-storeys, with shop front to ground floor, and tripartite palladian window above. This has a low relief and radial fluted decoration in the tympanum, and is flanked by narrow side lights forming an overall tripartite composition. Paterai with masks over the side lights, and a high frieze incorporating a band of circular windows. Shop front has been extensively altered, but chevron glazing in the overlight above the fascia, the bronze framed windows which line the deep lobby, and the coffered plaster ceiling of the lobby survive.
Reason for designation
The building, although altered, remains as a very good example of the work of local architect, S Colwyn Foulkes, working in a Neo-classical idiom to produce a highly distinctive commercial building.
Nearby in the register
- Colwyn HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Central Public HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
- Queens Buildings and Liberites Bar (No. 1 of 9 buildings )Commercialunder 1 mi
- Queens Buildings and Liberties Bar (No. 2 of 9 buildings)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.