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.
Former Heaton Town House (currently premises of Whiteheads Blinds and Happy Homes Furniture)
- WRENN ID
- crooked-stair-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Georgian townhouse
- Source
- Cadw listing
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.
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