Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
44 Vale Street
Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 2 February 1981
- Locality
- Denbigh - Town
- Community
- Denbigh
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18462, -3.41612
- Cadw reference
- 1041
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the street behind a generous high-walled forecourt.
History
Storeyed C18 house with probable earlier origins, but much altered in the C19 and C20. The building is thought to have originated as a stable block and service wing for the adjacent Mostyn House, the C18 town house of the Mostyn family, now no.42.
Exterior
Two-storey U-plan house with pebble-dashed elevations (over stone (?)) and slate roof. The house consists of a main range with 2 asymmetrical advanced wings. The main range has the entrance to the L, advanced in a part-glazed, flat-roofed C20 porch; Victorian 6-panel door with flanking side lights. Two 9-pane unhorned sashes to the first floor R. Advanced in front of the right-hand half of the main block, and continuing in front of the right-hand projecting wing on the ground floor, is a single-storey C20 garage block with 2 boarded garage doors. The inner return of the R wing has a first floor sash, as before. The left-hand wing has an 8-pane casement to its inner face with two further sashes on the first floor. The road-facing gable with a similar sash and raised stucco quoins to its R corner. Advanced to the front is a C20 single-storey lean-to addition.
The 3-bay garden front has a leaded French window to the centre with plain rectangular overlight. To the L of this is a tripartite leaded window in a shallow C20 rectangular bay; to the R of the entrance is a further glazed garden door with flanking side-lights, all steel-framed. 12-pane sash to the first-floor centre, with a 9-pane sash to its L and a tripartite window to the R; the latter has a cambered head and has a 9-pane central sash section with narrow flanking 3-pane lights.
Interior
Hewn ceiling beams to the right-hand ground floor room to the rear.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a C19 house retaining good external character with earlier origins as the C18 stables to the neighbouring Mostyn House.
Group value with other listed items in Vale Street.
Nearby in the register
- Garden Wall to rear of No.44 Vale Street, on E, W and S SidesDomesticunder 1 mi
- Mostyn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Forecourt Walls and Gatepiers to No 44 Vale StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- Clergy HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.