Territorial Army Drill Hall, Holywell, Flintshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.272 / 53°16'19"N

Longitude: -3.2188 / 3°13'7"W

OS Eastings: 318816

OS Northings: 375696

OS Grid: SJ188756

Mapcode National: GBR 5ZYL.YS

Mapcode Global: WH76R.J0GX

Plus Code: 9C5R7QCJ+RF

Entry Name: Territorial Army Drill Hall

Listing Date: 19 August 1991

Last Amended: 19 August 1991

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 429

Building Class: Defence

ID on this website: 300000429

Location: Midway along the street, at a splayed angle. Rubble boundary wall with brick gate piers.

County: Flintshire

Community: Holywell (Treffynnon)

Community: Holywell

Built-Up Area: Holywell

Traditional County: Flintshire

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good early C20 example of this building type.

Group value with the Masonic Hall on Coleshill Street (SW side).

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Other nearby listed buildings

II 9
Midway along the street, at a splayed angle. Rubble boundary wall with brick gate piers.
II Masonic Hall
Long building at right angles to the road and to left of Nos 10 and 12; set back behind walled forecourt.
II Old Bank House
Set back behind raised forecourt with railings curving around at ends, at right running back towards screen wall linking No 10 and the neighbouring chapel; round arched entrance to courtyard of Maes-y
II Maes-Y-Dre
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II Tabernacle English Congregational Church
Set back from the road behind walled and railed forecourt with pedimented end piers.
II Holywell County Court
Detached forward to the street.
II 21
At a splayed angle to the road midway up the hill. Red brick forecourt wall with Gothic inspired caps to the gate piers. Formerly Ysgol-y-Fron.
II Hotel Victoria
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Territorial Army Drill Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Holywell, Flintshire