The Priory is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 4 October 1988. House.

The Priory

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
4 October 1988
Type
House
Address
The Priory, Meliden, Prestatyn
OS grid reference
SJ 058 812
Coordinates
53.32021, -3.41413
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Priory is a late 18th century house that faces south, originally set back from the road with its east gable. It has since been extended closer to the road. The house features a main range that is two storeys high with three windows, which has been increased to five. The exterior is finished in white painted render under a tiled roof. The windows are white painted sashes set in black painted frames, with end chimneys at the original part of the house but none on the newer eastern section. There is a canted bay window on the left, which is likely not original, and a central open fronted porch that also appears to be a later addition, featuring bargeboards and a modern door.

On the front elevation, the upper windows consist of nine panes in hornless sashes. The bay window and two other front windows are 12-pane sash windows. The sides of the bay window have horned sashes that are one pane wide. The joinery is well-crafted with thin glazing bars, and the stone sills are complemented by cambered arches over two of the lower windows. The window on the right is a modern double French window.

To the left, there is a flat-roofed garage with a small roof-tiled upstand at the front.

Inside, the house retains chamfered beams and a notable open-well staircase that is not in its original location. The staircase features timber handrails, thin turned newels, inch-square balusters, and bracketed treads.

Local climate

The Priory sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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