Presents With A Difference

170 & 174 High Street, Prestatyn

Two shops with similar shopfronts at the centre of a terrace of four. Brick with stone dressings, shallow pitched slate roof concealed by high parapet. The design maximises the amount of display visible externally. There is in each shopfront an island display case centrally and one display case to each side, the latter cases carried inwards and then angled to meet the door at the rear of the island case, so that shoppers can enter at either side. The display cases stand on a masonry plinth about 500 mm high. The side cases have a thin moulded transom at high level and glazing above, but the island case is flat-roofed at top. The main glazing below the transom level is in straight and curved panes of plate glass with decorative thin uprights between panes. Leaded obscured glazing above transom, with art nouveau features. Above there is a deep fascia for the shop name inclined forwards above boxing. Small coloured floor tiles laid in patterns.

First floor has oriel window offset to right, flanked by 2-light windows, all with transoms.