Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade, Denbigh, Denbighshire

Entry Name: Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade

Listing Date: 2 February 1981

Last Amended: 20 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 977

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300000977

Location: At right-angles to the street.

County: Denbighshire

Community: Denbigh (Dinbych)

Community: Denbigh

Locality: Denbigh - Town

Built-Up Area: Denbigh

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

C18 town house of some scale and ambition. This was altered and extended in the late C19 when square bays were added to the ground floor and a terracotta blustrade was built to enclose a narrow forecourt.

Exterior

Large 3-storey Georgian townhouse. Roughcast over brick and rubble with late C19 plaster quoins and architraves to most openings; hipped slate roof with 2 squat central chimneys, the latter of stuccoed brick. Asymmetrical 4-bay facade with the entrance in the third bay (from the L). This has a boarded-up door (at time of survey) with rectangular, marginally-glazed overlight. Flanking the entrance are 2 large rectangular bay windows with wooden pilasters carrying entablatures with modillion cornices; both were found to have boarded windows at the time of inspection. To the L of these are two further small windows, also boarded. The first and second floors have elegant 12- and 9-pane sashes respectively, all unhorned, near-flush and with cambered heads. Lugged stucco surrounds with projecting keys and bracketed sills. Similar 12-pane windows to the ground and first floors of the R gable end, with a further 9-pane sash to the top floor.

Adjoining to the L, and stepped-down from the main building, is a low 2-storey, 2-bay service block. This is rendered and slated and has an entrance to the R and plain windows; openings have simple plaster surrounds and were boarded-up at the time of inspection.

Enclosing a small forecourt in front of the main building is a good late C19 terracotta balustrade. This has bulbous turned balusters with moulded rail on a moulded plinth, and has square gate piers to the R with a curved end section beyond. The right-hand pier has the collar for a former ball finial (that to the L is lost).

Interior

The interior was not inspected at the time of survey.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as an ambitious C18 town house retaining good external character.

Group value with other listed items in Chapel Street.

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Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade

A Grade II Listed Building in Denbigh, Denbighshire

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