Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
15089
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/11/1994
Date of Amendment
16/11/1994
Name of Property
Former Head Master's House at Hawarden High School
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Hawarden
Town
Locality
Easting
330474
Northing
366247
Street Side
Location
Adjacent to the NW of the main school block, the former Head Master's house, now the 6th form centre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Exterior
Established under the Welsh Intermediate Act of 1889, the former Hawarden County School was opened in 1898 as the fifth of its kind in Flintshire. The school was designed to accomodate 54
boys and 44 girls. By Grayson and Ould of Liverpool and built by W. and T. Bailey of Hawarden at a cost of ú2,450.
A large, asymmetrical 2-storey brick building under a steeply-pitched tile roof. Stacks to both L and R with moulded necking. Advanced L bay with timber-framed gable with plain barge-boards. Central entrance with moulded round-headed arch. Part-glazed door with decorative fanlight. Single-storey canted bay to R with 8-light leaded window and shallow tiled roof. Dentilated string course. Similar 8-light window to ground floor L bay. 2 and 3 light windows to first floor. 3-light flat-roofed dormer to attick. Decorative rainwater head to R of gablet and further dormer to S/W face. Also a stepped lateral chimney.
Contemporary single-storey storage range to rear.
Interior
Reason for designation
Group value with the Library Block.
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