The Former Mines Rescue Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 August 2010. Mines rescue station. 5 related planning applications.
The Former Mines Rescue Centre
- WRENN ID
- outer-stair-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 August 2010
- Type
- Mines rescue station
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Mines Rescue station; Superintendents House to right and lower workshop range to left. Red Ruabon brick to ground floor and quoins and window dressings to first floor, buff brick to first floor. Slate roof with decorative brick gable stack, mixture of plate glass sash and casement windows all with corbelled sills and those to the ground floor of the Superintendents House with hoodmoulds and keystones.
Superintendents House: Two storeyed 5 bay main wing with central window to first floor with paired sash windows to either side. Bracketed first floor string course with central arched doorway to the ground floor with recessed panelled door with glazed leaded margin lights to the frame. Two paired sashes to the right and tripartite window to the left. Two storey wing to rear.
Workshop: two bay gabled wing with two further bays to right and single bay section linking with Superintendents House to right. Gabled wing has wide garage door entrance to left, paired casement window to right and above moulded red brick lunette in the gable and remains of panel with the word 'Rescue' in raised lettering. Linking section has semi-circular gable with moulded coping, scrolled stops and tympanum with the 'North Wales Coal Owners Association' in raised lettering. Underneath is a wide tripartite window in infilled opening, presumably a former vehicle entrance. To the rear: left hand gable wing extends to the rear and encloses the central U-shaped single storey training gallery. Further flat roofed extensions to the rear of the Superintendents House.
Largely refitted for modern office use but retains original stairs and layout, in particular the windowless training gallery housed in the single storey U-shaped building to the rear.
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