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
417
Building Number
12
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/08/1991
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991
Name of Property
Old Bank House
Address
12 Coleshill Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Holywell
Town
Locality
Easting
318801
Northing
375723
Street Side
Location
Set back behind raised forecourt with railings curving around at ends, at right running back towards screen wall linking No 10 and the neighbouring chapel; round arched entrance to courtyard of Maes-y-Dre Tai Clwyd Home.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1838 by John Welch as a Savings Bank incorporating Manager's Offices at the rear. C20 (inter-war?) conversion into domestic accommodation; 'T'-plan.
Exterior
Classical, 2-storey, 3-bay front; rendered to 1st floor, pebbledash below sill band. Slate roof, boarded eaves and rebuilt brick chimney stacks. The facade is composed of pediment over 3-round arched full height recesses, the outer of which contain 4-pane horned sash windows to 1st floor. Later alterations to ground floor; splayed and bracketed canopy with valencing containing casement glazed splayed bay and door offset to left. 3-bay left hand side with horned 4-pane sashes. Rubble transverse range with hipped slate roof; to left is 1-semicircular headed small-pane sash in unusually broad architrave. 2-storey, 4-window rubble rear with broad margins to small-pane sashes; central windows linked by ornamental panel (?formerly containing a plaque).
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusually early bank building.
Group value with the English Congregational Church and the Masonic Hall.
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