Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Old County Hall
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Civil
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Mold
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16797, -3.13961
- Cadw reference
- 360
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "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).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road and opposite the junction with Tyddyn Street.
History
1833-4 by Thomas Jones of Chester. A gothic lantern was removed shortly after completion and the building extensively altered in 1880. Tudor Gothic.
Exterior
Cruciform plan, diagonally tooled ashlar on plinth. Transepts to main hall. 2 storey chambers to rear with later vice and adjoining single storey porch to right, group of windows with dormer in roof to left.
Eaves band with crenellated parapet and raking parapets at gable ends. Slate roofs with roll-moulded stone ridge. Single stack at rear with angular shafts on rectangular base. Moulded panel to front gable with Prince of Wales' feathers and motto (1880 ?), transept gables have pierced trefoils, lozenge bearing date 1834 to rear. Chamfered corners.
Eaves band linked to label over 3 light cross window over doorway with 4 centred hollow chamfer moulded arch with spandrels, returned label. Labelled 2 light cross windows to sides; upper lights of those to rear blocked. Tall 3 light cross windows to transepts; similar over small window between buttresses with pierced trefoils at rear. Square headed, labelled side door to transepts.
Exterior has bullet splashes from riots of May 1869.
Interior
Interior decayed, C1880'S ribbed celling. Stepped stone floor faces dais with Gothic canopy flanked by crenellated doorcases.
Nearby in the register
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