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
87288
Building Number
14
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/07/1966
Date of Amendment
12/07/2006
Name of Property
14 St Peter's Square
Address
14 St Peter's Square
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Ruthin
Town
Ruthin
Locality
Easting
312382
Northing
358327
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Probably late C18. The building was formerly the White Horse Inn, a wine and spirit merchant, which stopped trading in 1829. It was subsequently divided into 2 premises, the shop fronts probably mid-late C19.
Exterior
13 & 14 St Peter's Square
A pair of shops with houses over. Three-window 3-storey block, the central windows offset slightly to the R. Constructed of pale grey coursed stone under shallow slate roofs; brick stacks to L end and R of centre. The houses have wide hornless sash windows with stone heads, 16-pane to 1st floor and 4-over-8-pane to 2nd floor.
No. 14 is 1-window. Round-arched doorway to R, with recessed 6-panel door, the upper 2 panels lit, and a fanlight with radial glazing. Projecting shop front to its L, on a stone plinth; central inset splayed entrance with late C20 half-glazed door; plate-glass windows with arched heads partly obscured by modern fascia. The original fascia is blank, below a dentilled cornice. The N gable end is adjoined by No. 15. Three-storey rear wing of rubble stone. Its N side has a 4-pane sash to R and small 2-light window to L. Upper storeys have small 2-light casements, part quarry-glazed, 1 to 1st floor with a stone lintel, 2 on 2nd floor immediately under the eaves. Two-storey stone range adjoining to L, with 16-pane hornless sash to R and ventilator to L; upper storey has C20 2-light casement to L. Further L, range is rendered and converted to a pair of modern garages. The S side of rear wing is rendered with C20 plain-glazed 2- or 3-light wooden casements (as rear of No 13).
Interior
Interior has a pair of slender cast iron columns with decorative capitals, slightly L of entrance, and aligned at right-angles. They support a short wooden beam.
Reason for designation
Listed as a building retaining definite late C18 character and detail, the later shop-fronts including some good late C19 detail. Group value with surrounding listed buildings in St Peter's Square.
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