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
360
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Old County Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Flintshire  
Community
Mold  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
323914  
Northing
364035  
Street Side
 
Location
Set back from the road and opposite the junction with Tyddyn Street.  

Description


Broad Class
Civil  
Period
 

History
1833-4 by Thomas Jones of Chester. A gothic lantern was removed shortly after completion and the building extensively altered in 1880. Tudor Gothic.  

Exterior
Cruciform plan, diagonally tooled ashlar on plinth. Transepts to main hall. 2 storey chambers to rear with later vice and adjoining single storey porch to right, group of windows with dormer in roof to left. Eaves band with crenellated parapet and raking parapets at gable ends. Slate roofs with roll-moulded stone ridge. Single stack at rear with angular shafts on rectangular base. Moulded panel to front gable with Prince of Wales' feathers and motto (1880 ?), transept gables have pierced trefoils, lozenge bearing date 1834 to rear. Chamfered corners. Eaves band linked to label over 3 light cross window over doorway with 4 centred hollow chamfer moulded arch with spandrels, returned label. Labelled 2 light cross windows to sides; upper lights of those to rear blocked. Tall 3 light cross windows to transepts; similar over small window between buttresses with pierced trefoils at rear. Square headed, labelled side door to transepts. Exterior has bullet splashes from riots of May 1869.  

Interior
Interior decayed, C1880'S ribbed celling. Stepped stone floor faces dais with Gothic canopy flanked by crenellated doorcases.  

Reason for designation
 

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