Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
948
Building Number
10
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/05/1978
Date of Amendment
12/07/2006
Name of Property
Orville House
Address
10 Wernfechan
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Ruthin
Town
Ruthin
Locality
Ruthin East
Easting
312695
Northing
358266
Street Side
Location
At the S end of a row of 3 houses fronting the road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably mid-C19. Oroville House was probably a Public House known as the Bowling Green.
Exterior
Oroville House, Rosewood Cottage and Salop House form a group.
A terrace of 3 Picturesque cottages, the central one slightly set back. Each cottage is symmetrical, 2-storey, 3-window, with an advanced central bay. The cottages are roughcast under slate roofs with central brick ridge stacks; the upper storey on projecting brackets to suggest timber framing. The windows are mainly late C20 plain-glazed wooden casements.
Oroville House has an advanced full-height gabled bay to centre with scalloped barge boards, the entrance containing a late C20 half-glazed door. The stack is roughcast. No openings to S gable end. Rear has catslide, the S end with a single top-hung light to each storey. A modernised house adjoins to the L.
Interior
Interior not seen.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding alterations to openings, as an unusual group of mid-C19 Picturesque cottages retaining their character.
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