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The building, in 2016

Colwyn Bay Town Hall is a municipal building in Colwyn Bay, a town in Wales.

The building was designed by Walter Wiles, the Denbighshire county architect, and constructed between 1905 and 1907. It originally housed a police station on the left and a house for the Chief Superintendent of Police, and a magistrates' court on the right. The court closed on 20 December 1996, and the building was converted into the headquarters of Bay of Colwyn Town Council. It has been grade II listed since 1994.

The building is constructed of white stone, with dressings in red sandstone, and green slate roofs. The building is two storeys high, and the police station is five bays wide. There is a porch with an arched canopy, and windows with mullions and transoms. To its right is a tower, set slightly further forward, and the single-storey former magistrates' court to its right. It is three bays wide, with arched doorways in the end bays, and a mullioned window below a pediment with a coat of arms supported by pilasters. To its right is a flat-roofed anteroom with lancet windows.

References

  1. ^ "Police Station and Magistrates Court". Cadw. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. Roberts, Graham (2016). Secret Colwyn Bay. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445664323.
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