Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Post Office
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
- Communications
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1994
- Community
- Hawarden
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18481, -3.02560
- Cadw reference
- 15090
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Located on the corner of The Highway and Rectory Lane, and adjoining the S side of Kentigern.
Exterior
Single-storey flat-roofed brick building with symmetrical shop facade. Castellated parapet with coped crenellations, the central one stepped-up. Beneath this a rectangular moulded frame containing incised name "Hawarden Post Office." On E parapet, the date 1907. Moulded and dentilated cornice. Wooden flagpole and contemporary blind-box. Central entrance with recessed double doors. Glazed upper panels. Moulded brick plinth and stone cills.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as a well mannered building with Kentigern and other items in the village centre.
Nearby in the register
- Telephone Call-box on the corner with Rectory LaneCommunicationsunder 1 mi
- KentigernDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lloyds BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Gladstone Memorial FountainCommemorativeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.