Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Florence House, including blocks to rear
Llandudno, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 16 March 1976
- Locality
- Llandudno
- Community
- Llandudno
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32717, -3.83227
- Cadw reference
- 3494
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
About 20m S of junction with Church Walks.
History
1850s. Former court and police station, until replaced by new Police Station in Oxford Road around 1920.
Exterior
Two storeys. Front elevation of three widely spaced bays, faced with large painted blocks of stone of regular size. Slate hipped roof. Band at first floor level; end pilasters. Centre bay breaks forward and is surmounted by a shallow triangular pediment. Two-light casements with small panes and architraves on first floor; on ground floor, a 16-pane sash window with shouldered architrave in each outer bay. Doorway in centre with shouldered architrave and half-glazed four-panelled door. Side elevation to S of scribed render; 2 square windows to upper floor, 2 small windows to first floor; stair window between; doorway to L. To rear, block with hipped slate roof with ventilator; doorway facing S; rubble elevation to W.
Reason for designation
One of earliest purpose built civic buildings in Llandudno.
Nearby in the register
- Queen Victoria PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 Church WalksCommercialunder 1 mi
- Arch attached to corner of Queen Victoria PHDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 Church WalksCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.