Prichard Jones Institute

Entrance is through half-glazed doorway with flanking half-glazed panels and rectangular fanlights with margin panes above; windows with floriate Art Nouveau designs. Central hallway beyond contains dog-leg staircase with moulded rail on turned balusters; battered newel post with fluted sides, top panels decorated with carved flower set under a moulded cap. The hallway contains a brass plaque giving details of the history of the institute; panelled doors lead into ground floor rooms, hall and nursery to right, library and reading room to left. The library and reading room are the most richly decorated rooms, divided by a glazed partition of Art Nouveau style floriate design glasswork. The library contains original shelving, reading desks and rounded cupboards and also houses the original library booking system behind the counter; the reading room has an ornate floriate tiled fireplace and both rooms have decorative plaster coving. Other rooms in the institute also contain tiled fireplaces, the ground floor hall has one decorated with floriate designs, other fireplaces are plainer; and other rooms also contain moulded coving, again of plainer design that that found in the library and reading room.

Flamboyant Neo-Tudor style Institute building; asymmetrically planned, 2-storey with attics, based loosely on a hall and cross-wing principal, with short central range of 2-bays, and shorter 2-storey range set back to right end of main building (the caretaker's house). Entrance to left in central block, clock tower to its right. Elevations are faced with local granite rubble to lower part, half-timbered above, with Ruabon stone dressings throughout. Slate roof with shaped, rectangular, red-brick stacks with moulded caps; caretaker's house to right has decorated terracotta ridge tiles. Main entrance is through a depressed pointed arch with chamfered jambs; arch is decorated with beading in the angle, hoodmould above and recesses in the spandrels. Above the arch is a plain entablature broken by a moulded string and with continuous moulded string above which forms the first floor sill band. Directly over the entrance there is a first floor paired casement window with sandstone lintel; each window is of 3 lights, 2 side-hung casements with a top-hung casement over. Right of the entrance is a clock tower; 3 stages with the clock stage above. Ground floor with hipped-roofed adanced block to front lit by single quatrefoil light in front face, first floor with similarly detailed windows to those above the entrance, 2nd floor with narrow lights; each stage is articulated by moulded sill bands, the 2nd floor with an ashlar band under the dentilled cornice; clock stage above. Clock stage has 4 faces each with advanced central panel, front with clock face, flanking panels are fluted with moulded plinth and cornice. Moulded dentilled cornice, then cupola above with tall finial. Advanced 3-storey wing to right has ground floor transomed and mullioned windows of 4 lights, lower lights with 2-panes, smaller upper lights small paned. Entablature and mullioned windows of 3-lights above, similarly detailed to those above the entrance. Second floor with plain sill band and canted oriel window of 3-lights (as ground floor); jettied gable apex. Advanced wing to left has slightly advanced 2-storey bay window; ground floor with transomed and mullioned windows of 5-lights (as for right wing), similarly detailed entablature above; 1st floor also with transomed and mullioned windows of 5-lights, lower lights 2-pane, upper lights with rounded heads. Two-storey wing set back at right end (caretakers house) has panelled door to left and windows similarly detailed to those over the main entrance. Other elevations also have similar windows.