Registry Office (Ice House to East) is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 July 1962. Government building.
Registry Office (Ice House to East)
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Alyn and Deeside MP: Sir Mark Tami (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1962
- Type
- Government building
- Address
- Registry Office (Ice House to East), Hawarden
- OS grid reference
- SJ 316 658
- Coordinates
- 53.18578, -3.02374
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The property comprises a registry office with an ice house in the grounds. The main building dates to the 1920s, constructed in a plain Neo-Georgian style of red brick with stone-capped parapets and shallow slated roofs. The front garden elevation is arranged around four main ranges. The left-hand range is three storeys and seven bays wide, with the entrance in the right bay, featuring a flat, moulded stone canopy and a plain, moulded stone architrave above a recessed door composed of 15 panes. A stone plaque above the door is inscribed "AD 1927," with a recessed oculus of 12 panes above. A third-floor window is a recessed sash with 15 panes. All other windows are of the 12-pane sash type with lightly projecting stone cills. A large, returned bow window is present on the south return, featuring nine 12-pane sashes.
A central range incorporates a large, mid-18th century canted bay to the left, likely relating to a Restoration period house. This bay has three floors, each with recessed sashes of 9, 12, and 6 panes respectively. The voussoirs and cills are painted and rendered, projecting outwards. To the right of this bay is a vertical join marked by sandstone quoins to the first floor. The following five bays are disturbed, with the first two bays mirroring the window arrangement of the canted bay. The final three bays have tall, one-and-a-half storey windows on the ground floor with 15, 15, and 18 panes respectively, and above these, three 6-pane windows. A renewed parapet tops this section, with matching voussoirs and cills. Recessed and stepped up to the right is a later, two-storey block of four irregular bays, which is an addition by Rector Glynne. A large, recessed tripartite window of 20 panes is situated on the ground floor, followed by three elegant, full-length sash windows of 15 panes, further complemented by contemporary external blind boxes. First-floor sash windows include two 12-pane sashes on the left and Victorian four-pane replacements on the right. A large canted bay with three 15-pane sashes is located on the north face, above which is a 25-pane tripartite window.
A large, two-storied entrance porch acting as a porte cochere is featured to the west, with three depressed arches. To the right of this is a large 25-pane tripartite window illuminating a stairwell. This element was constructed around 1814 by Rector Grenville, and is followed by an undistinguished modern wing.
In the grounds to the east, towards the boundary wall with Cross Tree Lane, stands a 17th or 18th century ice house, constructed of brick with a domed top. The ice house is currently blocked. The interior has been largely modernised, showcasing a galleried stairwell with plain stairs, a swept rail, and plain, thin balusters.
Local climate
Registry Office (Ice House to East) receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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