Corwen Court (Old Police Station and Courthouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Courthouse, police station.

Corwen Court (Old Police Station and Courthouse)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 February 1995
Type
Courthouse, police station
OS grid reference
SJ 079 434
Coordinates
52.98036, -3.37212
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Corwen Court, formerly the Old Police Station and Courthouse, is a building constructed from roughly coursed and squared stone with slate roofs. The police station and house form a two-storey block with three window ranges on the right side, while the single-storey courthouse, which has been modified with an inserted floor, is on the left.

The former police station features a central entrance located within an added gabled porch to the left of centre. The lower window openings have painted stone heads with drop-ended hood-moulds. An original 16-pane sash window is located to the left of the doorway, while the far right window was inserted to match it, replacing what was previously a blind panel. Immediately to the right of the door, there is a small barred light that once illuminated the passage to the cells. The upper windows are 12-pane sashes, with the right-hand window being an insertion, and they have flat arched painted stone heads. The right gable return has three high-set cell windows on each floor, with one window on each floor blocked and two inserted windows below the original lights.

The courthouse on the left retains its original large 16-pane sash windows, which have painted stone lintels with drop-ended hood moulds. A gabled dormer was added to the roof when a floor was inserted around 1980.

Although the courthouse has been bisected and subdivided, and there have been minor changes to the layout of the police station and house, the cell area remains largely intact, featuring a wide corridor that provides access to three cells on each floor. The original iron gates to the ground floor corridor are still in place.

Local climate

Corwen Court (Old Police Station and Courthouse) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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