Bathafarn House is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 December 2005. House.

Bathafarn House

WRENN ID
muffled-tin-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 December 2005
Type
House
Address
Bathafarn House, Market Street & Wynnstay Road, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 124 583
Coordinates
53.11535, -3.3091
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bathafarn House is an asymmetrical two-story, three-window house dating from the 19th century. It features an advanced gabled bay on the right and is constructed of red brick with pecked yellow sandstone dressings, topped with a slate roof and brick stacks. Architectural details include sandstone quoins, a decorated brick eaves cornice, and a brick plinth with chamfered stone coping. The roof is hipped at the right end and the front of the advanced gabled bay, and half-hipped at the left end, adorned with decorative tile cresting and finials.

A shaped brick stack with a corbelled cap is located at the junction of the main range and the advanced bay, with two lateral brick stacks at the west end. The windows are narrow horned sashes without glazing bars, set in sandstone surrounds that include mullions, featuring zig-zag decoration on the lintels. The central entrance has a half-glazed panelled door beneath an overlight, enclosed in a sandstone surround with a segmental head. A slated lean-to porch canopy extends over a three-light bay window to the left. The advanced gabled bay on the right has a two-light window, while the upper storey features a single light above the entrance and two-light windows to the left and right under gabled half-dormers, with the left half-hipped.

The gables are open pediments decorated like the eaves cornice, interrupted by four-centred relieving arches over herring-bone brickwork. The west end of the house has a four-pane sash with a sandstone lintel on the upper storey, positioned between the lateral stacks. The east end of the house is not visible. The rear of the house, partially seen, has a three-window layout with modillion eaves and sandstone lintels above the openings. The upper storey includes a large central stairlight, a four-pane sash with coloured margin glazing, flanked by four-pane sashes. The ground floor features a central doorway flanked by sashes, with the right side having a pair of windows under a continuous lintel. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Bathafarn House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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