Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15069
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1994
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994
Name of Property
The Hawarden Gymnasium
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Hawarden
Town
Locality
Easting
331809
Northing
365662
Street Side
Location
On the street line.
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Built in 1891/2 as part of a new complex which replaced the original buildings of the Hawarden Institute, founded in 1854 by W.E. Gladstone for the "physical, social and intellectual benefit of all classes". Designed by T.M. Lockwood of Chester.
Exterior
A 5-bay red brick hall with shaped, ball-finialled gable and symmetrical 2-window facade. Slated roof. Central arched entrance with plain voussoir and Renaissance relief decoration in a tympanum. Within this, a cartouche inscribed `Hawarden Gymnasium'. Plain modern double-doors. Pillastered surround with moulded and dentilated brick cornice and similar interrupted string course. Flanking this, 2 arched-headed windows, near-flush, with plain voussoirs and tympana. 2 part, 8-pane casements. Lozenge decoration in blue headers to upper centre and framed Renaissance
cartouche bearing the date 1891. Contemporary single-storey extension to rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its association with W.E. Gladstone, and as a public building by a significant regional architect.
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