Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Park Place Hotel
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Mwrog Street, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 24 October 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 24 October 1950
- Locality
- Mwrog Street
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Ruthin
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11321, -3.31616
- Cadw reference
- 886
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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 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the corner of Mwrog Street and Borthyn, immediately W of Pont Howkin
History
Early C19, said to be dated 1837. In the 1860s it was intended to be the Railway Hotel, before the line of the Vale of Clwyd Railway was diverted towards the E, due to complaints from wealthy local landowners.
Exterior
Large hotel on a prominent acute-angled corner site consisting of 2 adjoining ranges, roughly forming a 'T', with fronts to Mwrog Street and Borthyn. Three-storey 3-window fronts, the windows not quite equally spaced, with central entrances. Constructed of red brick under slate roofs with wide boarded eaves; brick end stacks to Mwrog Street front with grouped diagonally-set shafts, renewed or altered in the 1930s. West gable end is of random stone, the stack external. The front to Borthyn has roof with lower ridge height, hipped to L end; 4th bay to R, slightly set back. The windows to ground and 1st floors are 16-pane hornless sashes under wedge lintels; 2nd floor windows are 8-pane sashes immediately under the eaves. Front to Mwrog Street has wide Tuscan architrave to entrance, with a panelled door flanked by small-pane sidelights. Window to lower L has lost its glazing bars. To R, Borthyn Street range projects at an angle; its S end is 1-window, that to 1st floor blind. Borthyn Street front has plain wooden doorcase with panelled door flanked by small-pane sidelights. Adjoining the R end is a 1-window stone wing of one-and-a-half storeys, under a slate roof with stone end stack. The windows are blocked, with stone to upper storey, and brick below, the latter originally a doorway.
Courtyard to rear: Rear elevation is constructed of stone, the openings with segmental heads of stone voussoirs; mainly C20 2- or 3-light wooden casements; fire-escape doorways to centre; small lean-tos to ground floor. Rear of stone wing has boarded door to R and 2-light casement window to L, and another aligned above, also with heads of stone voussoirs.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a large hotel in a prominent position, retaining good early C19 character and detail.
Nearby in the register
- 4 Mwrog StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Mwrog StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 8 Mwrog SteetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 7 Mwrog StreetNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.