Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1028
Building Number
47
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1950
Date of Amendment
20/07/2000
Name of Property
Jones Peckover Estate Agents
Address
47 Vale Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Denbigh - Town
Easting
305423
Northing
366238
Street Side
NW
Location
On the corner with Post Office Lane.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Elegant mid or third-quarter C18 town house used by, and perhaps built for, the Griffith family of Garn (Henllan).
Exterior
Elegant Georgian townhouse of 3 storeys. Brown brick construction (Flemish bond) with projecting sandstone quoins (renewed to the L corner); hipped slate roof with lead flashings and tall brick end chimneys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with central entrance via a segmental stone step; 6-panel door, the upper panels glazed, with 4-pane rectangular overlight in a moulded cornice canopy carried on consoles. The ground and first floors have Venetian-type windows to the outer bays with 12-pane arched central sashes and narrow 4-pane flanking sections, all unhorned and the central sections with intersecting glazing bars to the heads; projecting stone sills. Twelve-pane sash to the first floor centre, with segmental head. The second floor has a central 9-pane sash with segmental head and flanking 6-pane arched windows with intersecting heads as before. (Modern hanging sign to the first floor L and glazed estate agent's panels affixed to either side of the entrance).
Interior
Entrance hall with well staircase with turned balusters, moulded rail and scrolled tread-ends; segmental arch to the understair at L. Moulded cornices to the principal ground floor rooms.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a particularly fine mid or third-quarter C18 town house retaining good original external character.
Group value with other listed items in Vale Street; one of a number of fine town houses in this street, historically regarded as the gentry and professional quarter of the town.
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