Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Esplanade Hotel, Glan-y-Mor Parade
Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1976
- Locality
- Llandudno
- Community
- Llandudno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32534, -3.82958
- Cadw reference
- 3454
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forms the northern part of Glan-y-Mor Parade, running S from Trevor Street.
History
The block on The Parade between Trevor Street and St George's Place is Glan-y-Mor Parade. The terraced properties date from the1860s, and have gradually been combined, and now comprise The Ambassador Hotel (on corner with St George's Place), and The Esplanade Hotel.
Exterior
Hotel, now with front elevation of 10 windows (ie originally five 2-window houses); northernmost section (4 windows) slightly advanced. Four storeys and basement.
Stucco, slate roof, hipped to N, modillion cornice. Northernmost 2 units each have 2 gabled dormer windows; brick chimneys. Each unit has 2 sash windows to top floor, 2 rectangular sashes to second floor. On first floor, to L, canted bay window which descends to basement level; to R, sash window. On ground floors, to R, round headed doorways. The 3rd and 4th units have 1930s metal framed verandah with Art Deco detailing to the ground floor balustrade; steps flanked by slender lamps. Dwarf wall with iron railings.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Ambassador Hotel, Glan-y-Mor ParadeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Sixty-six Lamp StandardsGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Lamp StandardGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Merrion HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.