22 Princess Bingo and Social Club is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 July 1994. Cinema.

22 Princess Bingo and Social Club

WRENN ID
ruined-wicket-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
25 July 1994
Type
Cinema
Address
22 Princess Bingo and Social Club, 22 Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay, LL29 8LA
OS grid reference
SH 849 791
Coordinates
53.29674, -3.72776
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Princess Bingo and Social Club, located at 20-24 Princes Drive in Colwyn Bay, is a 20th-century building originally designed as a cinema. The exterior features a plain printed brick structure with a rendered facade, consisting of two storeys and three bays, with a prominent central section. A glass canopy supported by cast iron columns with ornamental rackets adorns the ground floor. The central entrance has been renewed, along with the shop front to the right. Above the canopy, the central block is decorated with sunk coupled lotus leaf pilasters that flank the low-set first-floor windows, which are set in a panel with a roughcast rendered surround. The building is topped with a splayed fluted cornice and a blocking course featuring an eagle in low relief. The outer bays contain paired tall windows set in roughcast rendered panels.

Inside, the original Art Deco interior remains largely intact, featuring an auditorium with a rear gallery and a stage. The walls are highlighted by ribbed pilasters, and there are decorative Art Deco grills over the side doors. The fluted columns supporting the gallery have Neo-Egyptian capitals. The ceiling is adorned with scrolled ribbed beams. Some original doors to the auditorium and former bar are present, showcasing stepped grids of glazing, along with original ceiling and wall lights in the auditorium.

Local climate

22 Princess Bingo and Social Club sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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