Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Orville House
Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Ruthin East, Ruthin, Denbighshire, designated on 16 May 1978.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 May 1978
- Locality
- Ruthin East
- Town
- Ruthin
- Community
- Ruthin
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.11440, -3.30581
- Cadw reference
- 948
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
At the S end of a row of 3 houses fronting the road.
History
Probably mid-C19. Oroville House was probably a Public House known as the Bowling Green.
Exterior
Oroville House, Rosewood Cottage and Salop House form a group.
A terrace of 3 Picturesque cottages, the central one slightly set back. Each cottage is symmetrical, 2-storey, 3-window, with an advanced central bay. The cottages are roughcast under slate roofs with central brick ridge stacks; the upper storey on projecting brackets to suggest timber framing. The windows are mainly late C20 plain-glazed wooden casements.
Oroville House has an advanced full-height gabled bay to centre with scalloped barge boards, the entrance containing a late C20 half-glazed door. The stack is roughcast. No openings to S gable end. Rear has catslide, the S end with a single top-hung light to each storey. A modernised house adjoins to the L.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding alterations to openings, as an unusual group of mid-C19 Picturesque cottages retaining their character.
Nearby in the register
- Rosewood CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Salop HouseNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 14 Railway TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- 13 Railway TerraceNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.