Annexe of Castle Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Hotel.
Annexe of Castle Hotel
- WRENN ID
- rough-wall-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Annexe of Castle Hotel, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 124 582
- Coordinates
- 53.11462, -3.31
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Annexe of Castle Hotel is a symmetrical, two-storey building with a three-window front, dating from the 18th century. The lower storey is stuccoed over a stone plinth, while the upper storey features roughcast. The building has a slate roof and roughcast brick end stacks. The gable ends are also roughcast, and there is an adjoining single-storey wing to the right. At the rear, there are full-height stone outshuts.
The front of the building has Tuscan pilasters at the quoins and flanking openings, with the quoins and former entrance being paired and banded. These architectural features support a pronounced moulded string course and a triangular pediment above the former entrance. The ground floor has wooden cross windows with diamond leaded glazing, likely from the 20th century, beneath which is a continuous sill band. The upper storey features plain quoin strips and 24-pane hornless sash windows set in shaped architraves with moulded segmental heads.
On the east gable end, there is a narrow 18-pane sash window offset to the left on the upper storey. The full-height outshut at the rear is advanced at the centre and further advanced to the right; the upper storey includes a sash window and a lateral stack in the centre, while the lower storey connects to the Castle Hotel. The left-hand return of the outshut has a small-pane casement.
The single-storey wing to the east is constructed of random stone under a slate roof, with an offset at mid-level on the south front, which may have originally served as a boundary wall and has no openings. The east gable end features two cross-windows, with the northeast angle canted, and the rear has a three-light transomed wooden window. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Annexe of Castle Hotel 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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