Bee and Station: Rhyl

Wynne Construction has been awarded the Bee and Station contract by Denbighshire County Council. The project involves the transformation of a derelict Grade II listed pub into 515m2 of new office space. The Bee is in a prominent location opposite the entrance to the town's railway station and is the first building people see when they arrive in Rhyl by train.

The £1.3 million refurbishment was made possible with a Welsh Assembly Government funding package, including contributions from the European Regional Development Fund, and the North Wales Coast Regeneration Area programme. Once the centre of the folk music scene in the town, the pub closed in 2005 and has since then been empty. It was built as a pub in the 1860s and is Listed because it is an excellent example of a late 19th century pub with a high quality decorative tiled frontage to the ground floor which was probably added in the 1890s. The heritage features of the building will be restored with financial assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund through the Townscape Heritage Initiative for Rhyl.