Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture) is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 November 1966. A Georgian Georgian townhouse. 1 related planning application.

Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture)

WRENN ID
crooked-stair-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
Georgian townhouse
Address
Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture), 26-32 Vale Street, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh, LL16 3BE
OS grid reference
SJ 054 661
Coordinates
53.18435, -3.41698
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Former Heaton Town House, now home to Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture, is an elegant and substantial Georgian townhouse, although it has been affected by unsympathetic shop fronts. Constructed from squared, coursed limestone blocks, it features a hipped slate roof and stands three storeys tall with an originally symmetrical five-bay facade. The central three bays project forward and are topped with a heavily-moulded pediment, complemented by a moulded cornice and a leaded parapet.

The second floor retains its original unhorned 16-pane sash windows, except for the far left window, which has been replaced with a modern 12-pane tilting window. The first floor has tall segmentally-headed windows, with the central window boarded up and the right-hand windows featuring 6-pane 20th-century glazing. The two left-hand bays are adorned with elegant wooden rectangular oriel windows, each with 15-pane unhorned sashes at the front, moulded cornices, and hipped roofs, which are alterations made in the second quarter of the 19th century. There are signs of creasing above the corresponding two right-hand bays, indicating that they previously had similar oriels. Broad sill-bands are present on the upper floors, while the ground floor is occupied by three modern shop fronts.

Inside, there are two 19th-century plain stick baluster staircases leading to the first floor, with one continuing to the second floor and featuring a returned balustrade at the top. The interiors have otherwise been modernised.

Local climate

Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture) 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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