Hotel Victoria, Holywell, Flintshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2727 / 53°16'21"N

Longitude: -3.2201 / 3°13'12"W

OS Eastings: 318730

OS Northings: 375770

OS Grid: SJ187757

Mapcode National: GBR 5ZYL.NK

Mapcode Global: WH76K.HZTZ

Plus Code: 9C5R7QFH+3X

Entry Name: Hotel Victoria

Listing Date: 19 August 1991

Last Amended: 19 August 1991

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 488

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300000488

Location: Detached, facing NW down the High Street; Halkyn Street to right.

County: Flintshire

Community: Holywell (Treffynnon)

Community: Holywell

Built-Up Area: Holywell

Traditional County: Flintshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Included for its dominant group value in the townscape.

External Links

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II Holywell County Court
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II Maes-Y-Dre
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II Old Bank House
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II 1
Planned terrace leading off the SW side of the High Street; Memorial Gardens to SW end. Set in slope, facing Nos 14 to 29 (NW side).

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Hotel Victoria

A Grade II Listed Building in Holywell, Flintshire