Jones Peckover Estate Agents, Denbigh, Denbighshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1848 / 53°11'5"N

Longitude: -3.4168 / 3°25'0"W

OS Eastings: 305423

OS Northings: 366238

OS Grid: SJ054662

Mapcode National: GBR 6M.3BJB

Mapcode Global: WH771.H66S

Plus Code: 9C5R5HMM+W7

Entry Name: Jones Peckover Estate Agents

Listing Date: 24 October 1950

Last Amended: 20 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1028

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300001028

Location: On the corner with Post Office Lane.

County: Denbighshire

Community: Denbigh (Dinbych)

Community: Denbigh

Locality: Denbigh - Town

Built-Up Area: Denbigh

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

Elegant mid or third-quarter C18 town house used by, and perhaps built for, the Griffith family of Garn (Henllan).

Exterior

Elegant Georgian townhouse of 3 storeys. Brown brick construction (Flemish bond) with projecting sandstone quoins (renewed to the L corner); hipped slate roof with lead flashings and tall brick end chimneys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with central entrance via a segmental stone step; 6-panel door, the upper panels glazed, with 4-pane rectangular overlight in a moulded cornice canopy carried on consoles. The ground and first floors have Venetian-type windows to the outer bays with 12-pane arched central sashes and narrow 4-pane flanking sections, all unhorned and the central sections with intersecting glazing bars to the heads; projecting stone sills. Twelve-pane sash to the first floor centre, with segmental head. The second floor has a central 9-pane sash with segmental head and flanking 6-pane arched windows with intersecting heads as before. (Modern hanging sign to the first floor L and glazed estate agent's panels affixed to either side of the entrance).

Interior

Entrance hall with well staircase with turned balusters, moulded rail and scrolled tread-ends; segmental arch to the understair at L. Moulded cornices to the principal ground floor rooms.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as a particularly fine mid or third-quarter C18 town house retaining good original external character.

Group value with other listed items in Vale Street; one of a number of fine town houses in this street, historically regarded as the gentry and professional quarter of the town.

External Links

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Jones Peckover Estate Agents

A Grade II Listed Building in Denbigh, Denbighshire