Top Rank Club (formerly Albert Hall) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Monument.

Top Rank Club (formerly Albert Hall)

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Monument
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Wide asymmetrical 3 storey painted frontage with open pedimented bay to right. Cornice and blocking course, twin columns with acanthus bands, Ionic pilasters to upper tripartite windows (top floor blocked), anthemion bands, fluted pilasters to outer bays. Similar treatment continues to 5-bay left hand section; heavy cill band over banded pilasters to ground floor. Pivot windows and modernised entrance canopy.

Long flank to De La Beche Street (3+3+3+2 bays). Dentil cornice, exposed rubble, keyblocked openings, arched openings to 1st floor (al blocked), cill band above arched ground floor treatment with recessed inner openings and impost bands. twin square-headed, larger openings to rear. Modern metal-clad roof with ventilators.

Interior of auditorium retains an ornamented ceiling with long guilloche panels coffering with central ventilator grilles, swagged frieze, segmental arched ceiling over rear balcony. Cantilevered and bowed gallery fronts with frond and wreath decoration; pilastered treatment under. Main landing has Art Deco frieze etc, good tube handrails to stairs etc.

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