Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
8 Clwyd Street
Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 14 February 1994
- Community
- Rhyl
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32049, -3.48877
- Cadw reference
- 14272
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road adjoining Nos 2-4 Clwyd Street.
History
Built some time between 1836 and 1852, and still in use as housing.
Exterior
Coursed and squared rubble with slate roof. End wall stacks. Three storeys, 4-window range, comprising a row of 4 single fronted, double-pile plan houses. Each has entrance to the right, a 2-panelled door with overlight, and 12-pane sash window (9-pane to attic storey), almost flush framed and with flat arched heads (timber lintels in attic storey).
Reason for designation
A rare example of the earliest phase of Rhyl’s development as a new town in the mid C19 which survives almost intact.
Nearby in the register
- 7 Clwyd StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Clwyd StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 5 Clwyd StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 4 Clwyd StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.