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21  

II  

Designated  

24/10/1950  

20/07/2000  

Offices of the Denbighshire Free Press  

21 High Street  

Denbighshire  

Denbigh  

 

Denbigh - Town  

305236  

366113  

N  

Within the colonnaded row.  

Commercial  

 

The colonnaded island row to which this building belongs is shown in John Speed's 1610 map of Denbigh. Originally timber-framed, the row retains its original covered lower stage, although the columns are mostly replacements of the C18 and C19. This feature is known locally as the Piazza, or 'Y Bylciau.' A watercolour by Sir Richard Colt Hoare of 1815 shows the colonnade returning as a single-storey pentise in to Crown Square, though this arrangement was swept away shortly afterwards. This building probably gained its present appearance in the second-quarter C19, when the upper section appears to have been rebuilt in brick.  

Three-and-a-half storey gabled building of 2 bays. Of brick construction with timber-framed origins under a slate roof; stone quoins and projecting keystones, all now painted and with ashlared stucco over the brick. The ground floor has modern shop windows; the upper floors are jettied-out over the pavement and are carried on 3 Tuscan stone columns. Two recessed Victorian 4-pane sash windows to each of the first and second floors, with a smaller, similar sash to the attic floor above.  

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.  

Included for its special interest as one of a colonnaded row of buildings retaining good external character and forming a significant element in the sub-medieval morphology and aspirations of the town. Group value with other listed items in High Street.