Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
6 Clwyd Street
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Clwyd Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 16 May 1978.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 16 May 1978
- Locality
- Clwyd Street
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Ruthin
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11455, -3.31139
- Cadw reference
- 861
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on a slope at the upper end of the street.
History
Early C19. The shop-front is probably late C19.
Exterior
Two-storey 4-window range, with basement storey to L, and shop-front offset to R. The front is rendered over brick under a slate roof; rendered end stacks, that to L larger and external. Brick modillion eaves cornice. The windows are hornless 12-pane sashes under flat heads. Ground floor has sash to L, and round-arched doorway L of centre, with raised flat porch canopy on consoles. Doorway contains a late C20 small-pane glazed door, and a decorative fan-light, probably original, reached by 5 steps. To R, projecting shop-front, with central inset half-glazed panelled door with leaded overlight, flanked by splayed shop windows, with leaded glazing above the transoms; heavy moulded cornice on tall brackets. To far R, segmental-headed doorway to through-passage, with half-glazed panelled door with overlight. Basement storey to L has glazed door under a segmental head, reached by steps, and a 6-pane wooden window to its R. W gable end, partly visible, is of painted rubble; to its L, rear wing, also of rubble stone, with small lateral brick stack.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed for its architectural interest as a well-detailed Georgian town-house retaining its character, the later shop-front little-altered. Group value with surrounding listed buildings in Clwyd Street.
Nearby in the register
- South Prior House including retaining wall and railingsCommercialunder 1 mi
- 14-14a Clwyd StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 4 Upper Clwyd StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 4A Upper Clwyd StreetCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.