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
87623
Building Number
3-5
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/08/2010
Date of Amendment
18/08/2010
Name of Property
The Former Mines Rescue Centre
Address
3-5 Maesgwyn Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Offa
Town
Locality
Wrexham
Easting
332811
Northing
350744
Street Side
Location
On the E side of Maesgwyn Road approximately 200m south of the junction with Regent Street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
C1913, built by the North Wales Coal Owners Association to house the Mines Rescue Service for the North Wales coalfields.
Exterior
Mines Rescue station; Superintendents House to right and lower workshop range to left. Red Ruabon brick to ground floor and quoins and window dressings to first floor, buff brick to first floor. Slate roof with decorative brick gable stack, mixture of plate glass sash and casement windows all with corbelled sills and those to the ground floor of the Superintendents House with hoodmoulds and keystones.
Superintendents House: Two storeyed 5 bay main wing with central window to first floor with paired sash windows to either side. Bracketed first floor string course with central arched doorway to the ground floor with recessed panelled door with glazed leaded margin lights to the frame. Two paired sashes to the right and tripartite window to the left. Two storey wing to rear.
Workshop: two bay gabled wing with two further bays to right and single bay section linking with Superintendents House to right. Gabled wing has wide garage door entrance to left, paired casement window to right and above moulded red brick lunette in the gable and remains of panel with the word 'Rescue' in raised lettering. Linking section has semi-circular gable with moulded coping, scrolled stops and tympanum with the 'North Wales Coal Owners Association' in raised lettering. Underneath is a wide tripartite window in infilled opening, presumably a former vehicle entrance.
To the rear: left hand gable wing extends to the rear and encloses the central U-shaped single storey training gallery. Further flat roofed extensions to the rear of the Superintendents House.
Interior
Largely refitted for modern office use but retains original stairs and layout, in particular the windowless training gallery housed in the single storey U-shaped building to the rear.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a Mines Rescue Building, purpose built to serve the mines within the North Wales Coalfields and important for retaining its original form and layout, in particular the training gallery. It is a rare example within Wales and displays good architectural detailing and construction.
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