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
15069
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/11/1994  
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994  
Name of Property
The Hawarden Gymnasium  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Flintshire  
Community
Hawarden  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
331809  
Northing
365662  
Street Side
 
Location
On the street line.  

Description


Broad Class
Recreational  
Period
 

History
Built in 1891/2 as part of a new complex which replaced the original buildings of the Hawarden Institute, founded in 1854 by W.E. Gladstone for the "physical, social and intellectual benefit of all classes". Designed by T.M. Lockwood of Chester.  

Exterior
A 5-bay red brick hall with shaped, ball-finialled gable and symmetrical 2-window facade. Slated roof. Central arched entrance with plain voussoir and Renaissance relief decoration in a tympanum. Within this, a cartouche inscribed `Hawarden Gymnasium'. Plain modern double-doors. Pillastered surround with moulded and dentilated brick cornice and similar interrupted string course. Flanking this, 2 arched-headed windows, near-flush, with plain voussoirs and tympana. 2 part, 8-pane casements. Lozenge decoration in blue headers to upper centre and framed Renaissance cartouche bearing the date 1891. Contemporary single-storey extension to rear.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Included for its association with W.E. Gladstone, and as a public building by a significant regional architect.  

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