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
867
Building Number
32
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/10/1950
Date of Amendment
12/07/2006
Name of Property
Hendy
Address
32 Clwyd Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Ruthin
Town
Ruthin
Locality
Clwyd Street
Easting
312221
Northing
358223
Street Side
N
Location
In a block of buildings towards the lower part of the street.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
A large near-symmetrical C17 timber-framed building, originally with a lobby-entrance. Joseph David Jones, musician and composer, established the Clwyd Bank Academy here. At a later date, Clwyd Bank was a farm-house, with outbuildings, now garages, to the rear. The house is now divided.
Exterior
32 and 34 Clwyd Street form a group.
Large 5-window range with central gabled porch wing, of 2 storeys with attics. Roughcast over timber-framing on a plinth, under a slate roof with central clustered brick stack. The W gable end is random stone, with a brick stack. To each side of the porch wing is a high gabled attic dormer with small triangular iron-glazed window, and scalloped barge boards. Rear, partly seen, is roughcast, with 3 gabled wings, that to centre probably C19, those flanking, late C20.
No 32 includes the former porch wing and the R-hand part of the main range. The porch wing has a lower ridge-height; it is close-studded to the ground floor, with 2 small square windows with quarries. First floor is square-panelled with a tall wooden cross-window; diamond framing to gable. To R-hand return of porch wing, 2-light casement with quarries (original door position unknown). 2-window main range, with entrance in angle with former porch wing: slated porch canopy, hipped to R end, on a timber post. Inside are 2 mid-late C20 small-pane glazed doors, each with an inner sidelight. The windows are 3-light wooden casements with quarries, that above lean-to porch smaller. Rear has a central 2-storey gabled wing, possibly C19, with a large tripartite window to each storey and a recessed roundel to gable. Further gabled wing to far L, probably late C20.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* for its exceptional architectural interest as a large C17 timber-framed lobby-entrance town-house, retaining good detail, the near-symmetrical plan-form with central porch-wing suggesting an element of renaissance planning.
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