Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Harp Hotel
Corwen, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Corwen, Denbighshire, designated on 1 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 1 February 1995
- Locality
- Corwen
- Community
- Corwen
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.98083, -3.37380
- Cadw reference
- 15519
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1898 · 120 Corwen (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the W end of the broad section of High Street, adjoining the National Westminster Bank.
Exterior
Probably early C19, though reroofed and possibly extended in the later C19. Painted roughly coursed and squared stone, slate roof with tiled cresting and end wall stack. 3 storeys, 2-window range, with entrance to the left. Panelled and partly glazed doorway with wrought iron canopy porch of segmental plan carried on scrolled brackets and incorporating the name of the hotel in lettering between bands. 2-pane sash window alongside, and 3-pane sashes to first floor, with tooled flat stone lintels. 12-pane sashes to gabled dormers of attic storey. Blind gabled return of a later extension to the left .
Reason for designation
A typical early C19 town-house which forms part of a group of commercial and domestic buildings at the centre of the town.
Nearby in the register
- National Westminster BankCommercialunder 1 mi
- Central HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- London HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Waterloo HouseCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.