5 Mwrog Street is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. House.

5 Mwrog Street

WRENN ID
former-ember-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 May 1978
Type
House
Address
5 Mwrog Street, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 120 581
Coordinates
53.11306, -3.31569
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

5 Mwrog Street, forming a group with 7 Mwrog Street, is a two-storey, two-window range building. The exterior is roughcast over timber framing, set on a rendered plinth, with a slate roof that is hipped at the right-hand end, where it adjoins the gabled range of number 7. A clustered brick end stack is located on the left. A rear wing has a large lateral brick stack on its west side. The front elevation features a half-glazed panelled door to the right, situated in the angle with number 7, and is sheltered by a moulded, flat-roofed porch canopy supported by a large rendered post to the left. The windows are 20th-century wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars, including a large four-light window to the left of the ground floor, which may have been a former shop window, and two smaller four-light windows to the upper storey. A vehicular through-way on the left is aligned with numbers 1-3, but belongs to number 5. The original end wall of the dwelling's timber framing is visible to the west side of the through-way, constructed with large, square panels filled with stone or brick. The rear elevation also has two windows, with mid-20th century metal casement windows; two-light windows to the upper storey and single lights to the ground floor, offset to the right. Above the through-way, a gabled half-dormer has a similar window. A rear wing extends to the far left, with a current entrance in the angle, a lean-to porch against the main range, a boarded door facing east, and a top-hung light to the south. This wing is two-storey, stepping down to the left, and also has metal casements: three-light windows to the ground floor, and two-light and single-light windows on the upper storey. Its rear (west) side has similar metal casements. Adjoining the front range on the left is a long, lofted outbuilding, likely a former carriage shed, with roughcast walls under a slate roof, boarded garage doors to the right, and two large arched openings to the left. Inside the arches, the ceiling has shallow-chamfered cross-beams and plain joists. A long brick building extends to the left, with higher eaves and a ridge stack, and includes several blocked openings, including a possible doorway blocked with stone and a wood-framed window.

The living room to the east has a large fireplace with a cambered timber lintel. The ceiling features deep-chamfered cross- and spine-beams with hollow-moulded stops and stop-chamfered joists. A jetty formerly extended from the west gable end, now enclosed within number 7; the northwest corner was supported on a large curved bracket.

Local climate

5 Mwrog Street 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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