Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hotel Victoria
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 19 August 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Locality
- Holywell
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27266, -3.22013
- Cadw reference
- 488
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Detached, facing NW down the High Street; Halkyn Street to right.
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.
Nearby in the register
- The King's Head PHCommercialunder 1 mi
- Vron Chambers (John Morris & Co.)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Tabernacle English Congregational ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Telephone Call-box outside The Post OfficeCommunicationsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.