Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Head Master's House at Hawarden High School
Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hawarden, Flintshire, designated on 16 November 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18875, -3.04198
- Cadw reference
- 15089
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Adjacent to the NW of the main school block, the former Head Master's house, now the 6th form centre.
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.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Library Block.
Nearby in the register
- Hawarden High School, original, central block with contemporary wings and including 1905 additionsEducationunder 1 mi
- Domestic and Agricultural Range to the NE of Kearsley FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Detached Coach House to SW of Stafford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stafford HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.