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
84434
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/05/2005
Date of Amendment
27/05/2005
Name of Property
Queensferry War Memorial Institute
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Queensferry
Town
Locality
Queensferry
Easting
331607
Northing
368131
Street Side
SW
Location
Located at a traffic junction on the S side of Queensferry village, in front of a retail park.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
The War Memorial Institute was opened on 29th December 1920 by H. N. Gladstone, Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire. There was originally a Liberal Club on the site, but it had not been successful as membership was based on ability to pay, and it was later demolished. After the First World War, the trustees and H. N. Gladstone gave their permission for an Institute and Memorial to be built, and £400 was raised for this purpose. There was a later appeal for a library extension, but it is not clear if it was ever built.
Exterior
Long single-storey range of corrugated iron sheeting on a brick plinth, the roof also of corrugated iron sheeting and with 3 iron ridge vents. The front has advanced gabled bays to the outer ends; the rear has similar gabled bays which are not advanced. Decorative small-scantling timber-framing to the gables in the form of vertical and raked struts. Continuous sill band. Wooden top-hung windows within moulded frames, 3-pane opening section above 2 panes. To the front, stretching between the gabled bays, is a shallow lean-to porch canopy supported on 2 narrow square piers on brick bases; arched braces to upper angles. Inside the porch is a central brick lateral stack with flanking windows; to the L is a boarded door, with a 2nd boarded door into the L return of the R-hand gabled bay. The fronts of the advanced gabled bays are 2-window to L and 3-window to R. The W gable end of the range is 3-window with a boarded door to far R; the E gable end is 2-window. To the rear, the central bay is 2-window, and the gabled bay to L is 3-window. There is a lean-to against the R-hand gabled bay with 3 small windows, that to R later; further window to its L-return.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a little-altered village institute and First World War memorial, retaining its historic character and detail.
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