Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
15065
Building Number
15
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1994
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994
Name of Property
Former Town Hall
Address
15 Glynne Way
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Hawarden
Town
Locality
Easting
331671
Northing
365744
Street Side
N
Location
On the street line.
Description
Broad Class
Civil
Period
History
Exterior
2 associated and adjoining ranges built in 1886 in playful Tudor style as a police station (to the R) and town hall (L range).
The Police Station: A 2-storey symmetrical, twin gabled building with narrow recessed central entrance bay. Of brick with painted stone detailing. Tiled roof with plain oversailing eaves and bargeboards. 3 simply moulded stacks. Simple, 3-light plain glazed windows to first floor of each flanking bay, with moulded mullions. Similar 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to ground floor. Continuous moulded brick dripcourses and 2 similar stringcourses. Plain moulded plinth. Central bay with narrow entrance. Depressed arched head with fluted keystone and moulded surround. Contemporary door with simple scrolled ironwork. First floor single-light window with moulded ogee head. Decorative stone relief plaques to both gables, that to the L bearing the date 1886. External clock on decorative iron scrolled bracket. An inserted stone plaque in the L bay records its erection in 1911.
Alleyway to R with contemporary flat-arched opening and stepped brick-coped wall running N.
Adjoining to the W the contemporary Town Hall.
Town Hall: Single-storey with large Dutch gable to the W. Of 2 bays, the R one advanced and both with catslide roofs. Central dormer with timber-framed gable and plain eaves, containing a 3-light leaded window. Each bay with a 3-light mullioned window to the L of a door, that of the L bay now blocked and rebuilt as a window. Contemporary door to R with ironwork and mouldings as before.
Moulded plinth, mullions and window reveals. Renaissance grotesque decoration in the W gable pediment. Lead coping to gable. 10-light mullioned and transomed leaded window beneath.
Modern brick extensions to rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with other items in Glynne Way.
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