Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Barrow Crafts (including Antiques Shop)
St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. Asaph, Denbighshire, designated on 24 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- St. Asaph
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25748, -3.44312
- Cadw reference
- 1457
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
L-plan range set back near the top of the High Street adjoining the National Westminster Bank; part formerly called "Temperance House."
Exterior
Dated 1745. 2-storey, roughcast elevations with band courses and plinths; slate roofs, 2 rendered chimney stacks and 1 brick one to front gable. 16-pane nearly flush sash windows with lugged architraves. C19 shop front facing W to Barrow crafts with panelled pilasters; half glazed door to Solicitors with lintel and plain pilasters; lean to entrance in angle with small pane glazed door to Antiques Shop. Gable end to High Street with end pilaster strips and deep band below date plaque reading "GE PI TL A 1745", shop front below with diamond faceted bracket cornice; panelled pilasters flank fixed 4-pane window to left, half glazed door to right.
Slightly set back lean-to at right side with camber-headed 6-pane fixed window, lugged and scrolled architrave. Roughcast right side with cross gable to rear; small pane sash windows. Parallel with and incorporated into Solicitor's property is a probably contemporary 2-storey, 2-window English bond brick range, formerly the Bakehouse. Slate roof and brick and rendered chimney stacks.
Mostly flush frame sash windows with cambered voussiors, small pane horizontally sliding sash window to right; boarded door to left.
Interior
The interior of Barrow Crafts retains a relocated C18 handrail to main staircase; panelled cupboards and boarded floors. Stop-chamfered beam to ground floor of Solicitors'.
Reason for designation
Group value with other listed items in the High Street.
Nearby in the register
- H.M. Cleaver & Co. (Solicitors)Commercialunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Barber ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- St. Asaph Diocesan OfficeReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.