Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Territorial Army Drill Hall
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Defence
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27201, -3.21882
- Cadw reference
- 429
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
Midway along the street, at a splayed angle. Rubble boundary wall with brick gate piers.
History
Dated 1914; style of F A Roberts, architect of Mold
Exterior
Simple 'Qeen Ann', symmetrical 2-storey, 5-bay red brick front with cemtral empasis; paler gauged brick dressings. Slate roof with wide bracket eaves and brick chimney stack. Central bay open pediment treatment and is flanked by pilasters; similar pilasters to ends, all rising from a dentilled band at ground floor lintel level; stone corbels at ends. Horned 12-pane sash windows with voussoirs and shaped aprons. Camber arched stone surround to entrance with bracketed cornice and recessed double half-glazed doors. Facade dressings return around left gable end as far as the corbelled chimney breast. Single storey hall range to rear with pilaster buttresses and conical ventilator.
The attached 2-storey house (No 9) stepped down to left with splayed bay window. Similar but simplified style; roof hipped at left end; small-pane glazing only to upper sashes. Entrance to left has small-pane overlight.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good early C20 example of this building type.
Group value with the Masonic Hall on Coleshill Street (SW side).
Nearby in the register
- 9Domesticunder 1 mi
- Masonic HallInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Old Bank HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Maes-Y-DreDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.