Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Britannia PH
Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 20 July 2000
- Locality
- Denbigh - Town
- Community
- Denbigh
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.18277, -3.42212
- Cadw reference
- 23601
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the street line.
History
Second-quarter or mid C19 inn with earlier origins and later C19 alterations.
Exterior
Two-storey inn in neo-vernacular style. Of roughcast rubble construction with slate roof. Near-central entrance with recessed C19 panelled door. To the L is a window with projecting stone sill and modern uPVC window; 2 similar windows to the R. Three-bay first floor with gables defining each bay; these have deep verges and pierced, decorative bargeboards with pendant-finials. The central and right-hand bay have unhorned C19 sashes with marginal glazing. The left bay has a projecting wooden oriel in the form of a Victorian canted bay; sashes with marginal glazing, as before, with a tiled roof. Above the central first floor window is an inn sign with segmentally-arched, moulded frame; modern hanging sign to the R.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a C19 inn building retaining strong neo-vernacular character, notwithstanding alterations to the lower windows.
Group value with other listed items in Love Lane.
Nearby in the register
- 2 Love LaneCommercialunder 1 mi
- 7 HighgateDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gem NewsagentsCommercialunder 1 mi
- Nos 15 & 17 Portland Place (partly the premises of 'Poppies')Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.