Highcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Coastguard house - terrace.
Highcroft
- WRENN ID
- frozen-footing-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1989
- Type
- Coastguard house - terrace
- Address
- Highcroft, Pen-Y-Coed, Llangollen
- OS grid reference
- SJ 224 418
- Coordinates
- 52.96877, -3.15683
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Highcroft is a two-storey building featuring rendered elevations and a hipped slate roof with boarded eaves and stock brick chimney stacks. The front has three windows, rusticated quoins, and a plinth, with stone lintels and cornices above the ground floor windows. There is a central blind roundel. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows, while the ground floor features tripartite small pane sashes. The entrance consists of panelled double doors flanked by side lights and an over-light.
On the right side, there are two windows with similar detailing, including 12 and 16-pane sashes and a small pane French window. The left side has three storeys with similar features, including camber-headed windows on the lower floor. At the rear, a two-window cross range projects, featuring a hooded doorway. The rear also displays similar detailing with twin gables, an attached rubble outhouse, and a greenhouse, along with a red brick lean-to at the centre.
Inside, the building retains a contemporary fireplace and doors. The staircase features 'S' shaped tread ends and a turned newel.
Local climate
Highcroft receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
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