Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Dinorben Arms Public House
Bodfari, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodfari Village, Bodfari, Denbighshire, designated on 16 November 1962.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1962
- Locality
- Bodfari Village
- Community
- Bodfari
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22003, -3.36059
- Cadw reference
- 1387
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately south of St. Stephen's Church. The house is sited downslope. Extensive carparks at rear.
History
A C17 house in origin, remodelled in the C19.
In 1843 the property was part of the estate of Lord Dinorben, tenanted by James Edwards; it was described as the Dinorben Arms homestead but was not a farm, having only 3 acres (1.2 hectares) of land attached.
In the C20 the pub has been much extended at the rear.
An earlier listing description noted a Jacobean panelled door on ornamental iron straps on lugs, and an C18 early enriched wood mantel.
Exterior
Two-storey, three-window public house, roughcast with rusticated window surrounds and quoins; slate roof with chimney between the first and second units at left and end-chimney at right. Coped gables at each end of the main range. Three-light wood mullion windows with an eight-pane sash window in each light and with hood moulds, the lower ones rendered over. Plain open-fronted porch between the centre and right units.
An additional unit at the north end in similar materials with a lower roof and with small pane modern windows. At rear the building extends irregularly with much black-and-white mock half timbering.
Interior
Pub interior much renovated.
Reason for designation
A house in the vernacular tradition, listed also for group value with the church and Dinorben Arms as a key element in a village centre of conservation importance.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate and Steps to St Stephen's ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St StephenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hafod-tan-yr-eglwys (Formerly Ty-gwyn)Domesticunder 1 mi
- The Old School and SchoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.