Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bathafarn House
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Market Street & Wynnstay Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 30 December 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 30 December 2005
- Locality
- Market Street & Wynnstay Road
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Ruthin
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11534, -3.30910
- Cadw reference
- 87319
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
Facing S into Market Street with Bathafarn Chapel adjacent to the E.
History
Minister's house probably contemporary with Bathafarn Chapel, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1869 by Richard Owens of Liverpool, and with the same detail.
Exterior
Asymmetrical 2-story 3-window house with advanced gabled bay to R. Constructed of red brick with pecked yellow sandstone dressings under a slate roof with brick stacks. Detail includes sandstone quoins, decorated brick eaves cornice, brick plinth with chamfered stone coping. The roof is hipped to R end and front of advanced gabled bay, and half-hipped to L end; it has decorative tile cresting and finials. Shaped brick stack with corbelled cap at junction of main range and advanced bay; 2 lateral brick stacks to W end. The windows are narrow horned sashes without glazing bars in sandstone surrounds, including mullions, with zig-zag decoration to lintels. Central entrance with half-glazed panelled door under an overlight, in a sandstone surround with segmental head. Slated lean-to porch canopy which extends over a 3-light bay window to the L. Advanced gabled bay to R has 2-light window. Upper storey has single light above entrance; 2-light windows to L and R under gabled half-dormers, that to L half-hipped. The gables are open pediments with decoration as eaves cornice, cut by 4-centred relieving arches over herring-bone brickwork. West end of house has 4-pane sash with sandstone lintel to upper storey, between the lateral stacks; E end of house not visible. Rear of house, partly seen, is 3-window with modillion eaves and sandstone lintels to openings. Upper storey has large central stairlight, a 4-pane sash with coloured margin glazing, flanked by 4-pane sashes. Ground floor has central doorway flanked by sashes, that to R a pair of windows under a continuous lintel.
Interior
Interior not inspected.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-detailed and little-altered minister's house of the mid-late C19, and for group value with Bathafarn Chapel and the forecourt walls and railings.
Nearby in the register
- Gates, piers & railings fronting Bathafarn Chapel & Bathafarn HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Bathafarn Wesleyan Methodist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Christ's HospitalNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- War MemorialNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.