96 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Parish Church of St DeinolGrade II* listedThe Correction HouseGrade II* listedThe Glynne Arms PHGrade II listedFormer Police StationGrade II listedTithe BarnGrade II listed+5See all photos

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c. 1810

c. 1831

c. 1832

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Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

The first 9 entries were listed in 1962. 82 came in 1994. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

The 'Lock-Up', HawardenPost Medieval/Modern; Lock Up

Trueman's Hill motteMedieval; Motte and Bailey

1 registered park or garden

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

The official list counts 96 listed buildings in Hawarden, 1 of them Grade I, including Gladstone's Library. Only 103 of the 561 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Glynne Way alone there are 31 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975.

Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1994, when 82 of the 96 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Idwal Davies (1899) and Philip Rodgers (1891) were born here before 1900; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.