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
1038
Building Number
26-32
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/11/1966
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture)
Address
26-32 Vale Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Denbigh - Town
Easting
305409
Northing
366186
Street Side
SE
Location
On the street line.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Grand third-quarter C18 town house, built for the Heaton Family, one of the principal gentry families in the locality. The house, long known as Ty Mawr, served as the family's main Denbighshire residence during the period when they were based in London, prior to their purchase of Plas Heaton in 1805; subsequently it became their dower house. The house was sold c1861 to Thomas Gee, the notable publisher and printer, who divided the ground floor into shops.
Exterior
Elegant and substantial Georgian townhouse, marred by unsympathetic shop fronts. Of squared, coursed limestone blocks with hipped slate roof; 3 storeys with (originally) symmetrical 5-bay facade. This has an advanced central 3 bay section with surmounting, heavily-moulded pediment; associated moulded cornice with leaded parapet. The second floor retains its original unhorned 16-pane sashes, except to the far L, where replaced by a modern 12-pane tilting assimilation. The first floor has tall segmentally-headed windows, of which that to the centre is boarded and those to the R have 6-pane C20 glazing. The 2 left-hand bays have elegant wooden rectangular oriels with 15-pane unhorned sashes to the front, moulded cornices and hipped roofs. These are alterations of the second quarter C19. Creasing above the corresponding 2 right-hand bays indicates that these formerly also had such oriels. Broad sill-bands to the upper floors. Three modern shop fronts occupy the ground floor.
Interior
Two C19 plain stick baluster staircases lead to the first floor, one continuing to the second with a returned balustrade at the top; otherwise modernised interiors.
Reason for designation
Listed for the special interest of its origins as an elegant and ambitious third-quarter C18 town house, retaining good original character to the upper floors.
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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