The Hawarden Institute

The Hawarden Institute is a two-storey building with a four-bay facade designed in the Queen Anne style. It features a shallow-pitched hipped roof made of slate, with overhanging eaves and a moulded eaves cornice. There is a single off-set brick chimney stack on the left side. The main section of the building is symmetrical with three windows on the left and a recessed entrance bay on the right. The entrance has an open porch with a slate roof supported by scrolled wooden brackets, and a wooden balustrade to the right. Access to the contemporary door is via stepped steps, and the door has an upper half glazed with twelve panes. On either side of the entrance, there are a pair of fixed windows with six panes each, featuring moulded, shaped heads. Above the entrance, there is a tripartite window supported by decorative wooden brackets and topped with a moulded pediment over the central light. A contemporary glazed lantern is mounted on a bracket above the porch.

The main block includes a tripartite window with part-leaded glass, an arched wooden transom, and a decorative keystone at the centre of the ground floor. Above this, there is a similar window, but it is a Norman-shavian oriel supported by scrolled brackets. On both floors, there are flanking windows with six lights, which are mullioned and transomed. The ground floor is constructed of red brick, featuring a moulded and dentilated string course and decorative diaper work in blue headers. The first floor is roughcast, with plain brick string courses at the cill level and beneath the eaves cornice. The building also has pronounced brick quoins.

Adjoining the rear of the building is a contemporary two-storey domestic range, now known as No. 31. This range has cambered heads on its doors and windows, and features both hipped and catslide roofs, along with contemporary yard walls and a W.C.