Old town Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Town hall.

Old town Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 1989
Type
Town hall
Address
Old town Hall, Llangollen
OS grid reference
SJ 215 419
Coordinates
52.96882, -3.1702
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Old Town Hall is a two-storey building constructed from rubble laid in courses of diminishing sizes, featuring a plinth and heavily tooled freestone dressings. It has a slate roof with end chimney stacks. Historical photographs indicate that there was once a raised clerestory at the center, and stone kneelers are present at the gable parapets. The building has multipane mullioned windows with architraves.

Facing Victoria Square, the front features a three-light window above the main entrance, which has a bracket-sided panel between it and a small panel above a boarded and studded door. On Berwyn Street, there are two windows to the left: a two-light window on the first floor and a barred window on the ground floor. Slightly set back is the Old Armoury, which has a single window with a stringcourse at the first floor level and a one-light small pane casement above a plain shop front. The Hall Street elevation is similar, with the one-window section also set back. It includes a two-light window on the ground floor and a studded door in a similar surround.

Internally, the building retains brick arched cellars. Barred windows on the dividing wall to the west, which are now blocked up, suggest that this was once an outside wall, indicating that the Old Armoury is a later addition. The main part of the building features a four-bay open roof.

Local climate

Old town Hall receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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