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
429
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
19/08/1991  
Date of Amendment
19/08/1991  
Name of Property
Territorial Army Drill Hall  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Flintshire  
Community
Holywell  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
318816  
Northing
375696  
Street Side
 
Location
Midway along the street, at a splayed angle. Rubble boundary wall with brick gate piers.  

Description


Broad Class
Defence  
Period
 

History
Dated 1914; style of F A Roberts, architect of Mold  

Exterior
Simple 'Qeen Ann', symmetrical 2-storey, 5-bay red brick front with cemtral empasis; paler gauged brick dressings. Slate roof with wide bracket eaves and brick chimney stack. Central bay open pediment treatment and is flanked by pilasters; similar pilasters to ends, all rising from a dentilled band at ground floor lintel level; stone corbels at ends. Horned 12-pane sash windows with voussoirs and shaped aprons. Camber arched stone surround to entrance with bracketed cornice and recessed double half-glazed doors. Facade dressings return around left gable end as far as the corbelled chimney breast. Single storey hall range to rear with pilaster buttresses and conical ventilator. The attached 2-storey house (No 9) stepped down to left with splayed bay window. Similar but simplified style; roof hipped at left end; small-pane glazing only to upper sashes. Entrance to left has small-pane overlight.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as a good early C20 example of this building type. Group value with the Masonic Hall on Coleshill Street (SW side).  

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