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
87317
Building Number
9
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/05/1978
Date of Amendment
12/07/2006
Name of Property
9 Well Street
Address
9 Well Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Ruthin
Town
Ruthin
Locality
Easting
312457
Northing
358244
Street Side
Location
In a block of buildings fronting Well Street, on a steep slope.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Pair of C19 houses, possibly designed with shop fronts; that to R was removed before the 1970s, that to L was renewed in the C20.
Exterior
Nos 7-9 form a group. No 7 is a shop. No 9 is divided, with entrance to No 9A to front and No 9 to rear.
Two-storey 3-window range, rendered or roughcast over brick, under a slate roof with tile cresting; the stacks are missing. Moulded wooden eaves cornice; rusticated quoins, those to R removed by the 1970s; small-pane sash windows; vehicular through-passage beneath central window.
No 9 is 1-window and roughcast. Entrance to L with moulded wooden doorcase with triangular pediment on brackets (there were originally columns), containing a C20 half-glazed panelled door under an overlight. Renewed small-pane tripartite horned sashes to each storey. In front of the ground floor window, low plain iron railings on a stone plinth, possibly marking position of a bayed shop window, removed by the 1970s. Under through-passage to R side, C20 half-glazed wooden door, entrance to No 9. To rear, long brick rear wing in 2 sections, that to N lower. Rendered to W side and N gable end. To W, higher bay to R has mid-late C20 3-light window to each storey; lower wing to L has 2 large uPVC windows to ground floor and a mid-late C20 window to upper R; gable end has 3-light C20 window above a small lean-to. To SE, adjacent to Crown House, the rear wing adjoins a high narrow gabled bay, probably much earlier; the lower part of the wall is heavily battered, with a stone corbel to L at 1st floor level; C20 wooden window at 2nd floor level; a hipped section at right angles joins chimney stack of Crown House.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed as a pair of town-houses with shops retaining definite C19 character and detail, notwithstanding the loss of one of the shop-fronts. Group value with surrounding listed buildings in Well Street.
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