Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Earl Chambers (Chester Chronicle Building)
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mold, Flintshire, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Mold
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16760, -3.14317
- Cadw reference
- 367
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
On the street line adjoining cambrian house and opposite the Town Hall.
History
C1910 by F A Roberts of mold. Edwardian baroque.
Exterior
2 storey, 9 bay english bond brick, vermiculated stone plinth. Freestone channelled end pilasters, string course, cornice and parapet. Advanced 3 bay centre, channelled end pilasters, freestone ground floor. Steeply pitched slate roof, raking gable parapets, tall brick stacks with cornices.
12 pane sashes to 1st floor, gauged brick voussoirs; terra cotta keystones on advanced bay, aprons to sills. Keystoned round arched openings to ground floor of advanced bay. Mullion and transoms windows; panelled double door to left, semicircular fanlight over. Other ground floor windows have brick voussoirs brick bracketed sills. Those on left having lost lower glazing bars.
Reason for designation
Included for group value.
Nearby in the register
- Territorial Force AssociationInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Cambrian HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Earl Buildings including Town & Country & C.WilcoxCommercialunder 1 mi
- Town HallCivilunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.