Former Office Buildings, Shotton Steelworks

Pair of office and support buildings in a modernist style influenced by the Festival of Britain and with a surrounding and integral contemporary designed garden and landscape.

Two long two storey buildings with lower entrance wings linked by a wide flat central entrance arch. Brown brick with red brick plinth. Windows a mixture of 6 and 9 light and are metal framed with raised cement surrounds. Hipped roof to the main ranges and flat roof to the lower entrance wings.

The left hand building is of 12 bays and the right 6 bays, both with continuous window ranges separated by cement panels and with overall surround except the outer windows which are separate. Main door in the ground floor of the left hand building with flanking windows and all set within a raised cement surround. To either side of the central entrance arch are symmetrical two bay entrance wings set back from and lower than the main wings with ground floor doors to their outer bays and each with a wide concrete balcony to the first floor with distinctive ballustrading and handrail.

Window arrangement in rear elevation echoes that to front providing continuous glazing along each elevation, providing a view overlooking the garden to the rear. 3 window range to the internal elevation of each lower entrance wing. Central entrance arch allows access to a small open courtyard with gateway and flanking walls to formal gardens and lawns to the rear. A pathway continues from this courtyard directly into this area. Attached to the side of the right hand wing is a further two storey flat roofed extension with wide vehicular doorway to the ground floor.

Not inspected but lower central wings contain original staircases and other detailing. Left hand building said to contain large canteen to the ground floor and private dining rooms and training rooms to the first floor. Right hand building containing a large open plan warehouse on the ground floor accessed by large doorway at right end, possibly a later alteration replacing original office space, and offices on the first floor.