Primary House at Pwll Callod is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 October 1970. Gentry house.
Primary House at Pwll Callod
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1970
- Type
- Gentry house
- Address
- Primary House at Pwll Callod, Ruthin, Efenechtyd
- OS grid reference
- SJ 119 542
- Coordinates
- 53.07824, -3.31603
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Pwll Callod is a small, two-storey stone gentry house with a late-medieval cruck-framed core. The exterior features limestone rubble casing and a tall, projecting end chimney on the left, which is heavily overgrown. The roof is slated but mostly stripped.
On the west side, the entrance is located to the left and has a 19th-century boarded door with an exposed timber lintel above it, along with a 2-pane glazed window. To the right of the entrance are two unglazed, 2-light windows, with two additional windows under the eaves that are asymmetrically placed. All windows have wooden mullions and expressed lintels. The right gable has a late 18th-century or early 19th-century external stone stair that provides access to the upper floor, featuring a stone parapet. The upper entrance has a segmental arch made of rough-dressed voussoirs. To the left of this entrance is an early 17th-century window with an ovolo-moulded, pegged oak frame, which was originally a small 6-light mullioned window but has since been altered to a single mullion with boarded shutters. The left gable includes an oven projection from the 18th or early 19th century.
Internally, the base crucks of the primary hall house are visible, although the space has been subdivided by the addition of a first floor around 1600. This first floor features stopped-chamfered main beams and joists, which are mostly rotten and in increasingly unsound condition. The interior is divided into two spaces, with the hall and parlour ends apparently swapped during the rubble encasing. A lath-and-plaster partition separates these spaces, positioned between the original trusses towards the end of the second bay. On the first floor, the original decorated truss of the medieval hall is visible, featuring an arched-braced collar truss type with chamfering and a simple carved foliate pendant. Cusped raking struts above the collar create a characteristic trefoil decoration. There are two tiers of purlins, all original except for one early replacement, though no windbraces remain.
Local climate
Primary House at Pwll Callod 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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