1 Rhiw Bank Avenue

Nos 58-64 (even) Abergele Road with No 1 Rhiw Bank Avenue, Colwyn Bay

This is a three-storey building with attics, finished in roughcast render with smooth rendered dressings, and covered by a slate roof with tiled cresting. It forms part of a group with the neighbouring properties.

The main frontage to Abergele Road comprises a three-window range with an advanced gable to the right and a narrow later addition (circa 1930) to the left. The principal three-window range features two canted oriel windows on the first floor, each with modillion cornices; the glazing in these has been renewed. The upper storey originally had 4-pane sash windows, which have been replaced though the original openings remain. A round-arched attic window sits beneath a steep dormer gable on the left, which has bargeboards topped with a finial. The advanced gable on the right contains a similar canted oriel window, with paired 4-pane sash windows above and a round-arched window at the gable apex. The small extension on the left has flat-headed mullioned windows.

The ground floor shop fronts date from circa 1930 and project forward, displaying heavy detailing including modillion cornices, deep fascia with glass lettering on the right-hand unit, and slender brackets with corbel heads and dragon finial. Each shop has curved display windows with recessed entrances. The windows retain leaded upper panes, some containing stained glass pictures of ships, windmills and similar subjects. The shop front within the right-hand gable is of somewhat earlier date and features arcaded segmentally arched windows and doorway, with cast iron columns having capitals and brackets with foliate spandrels supporting a glazed canopy.

The return elevation to Rhiw Bank Avenue displays alternating canted bay windows and 4-pane sash windows, with a central entrance set beneath a gable.