Ethel Austin and house over is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. Shop, house.

Ethel Austin and house over

WRENN ID
peeling-bastion-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 May 1978
Type
Shop, house
Address
Ethel Austin and house over, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 124 582
Coordinates
53.11443, -3.30991
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Ethel Austin and the house above is a three-storey building with a two-window front, featuring a roughcast exterior beneath a shallow slate roof. The northern end stack is now missing. The ground floor has a shop front with raised panelled pilasters at each end, which have moulded capitals supporting a moulded cornice and a plain fascia. There is an inset splayed entrance to the left of centre, which has a half-glazed panelled door with an overlight above it. To the left of the entrance is one shop window, and to the right are three plain-glazed shop windows with wooden mullions and upper transoms.

On the upper storeys, there are two widely spaced 3-over-6-pane hornless sash windows under flat heads. The first-floor windows have been renewed, while the second-floor windows are located directly under the eaves. Between the first-floor windows is a tablet that is partly obscured at the time of the survey, which is said to read 'R/IET/B 1622'. The northern gable end features a small-pane attic window on the far right, positioned above an adjoining building. The southern gable end is constructed of roughly coursed stone with areas of brick patching. The rear of the building was not seen.

Local climate

Ethel Austin and house over 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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