Pretty Woman (Beauty Salon) is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.

Pretty Woman (Beauty Salon)

WRENN ID
waning-porch-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2000
Type
House, shop
Address
Pretty Woman (Beauty Salon), 13 Vale Street, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh, LL16 3AD
OS grid reference
SJ 052 661
Coordinates
53.18397, -3.41863
Source
Cadw listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Pretty Woman is a three-storey house and shop built of brick, likely with timber-framed origins, topped with a slate roof and featuring a plain end chimney on the right. The facade is asymmetrical with two bays and is stuccoed, showcasing rusticated pilasters at the sides on the upper floors. The ground floor includes a modern shop front on the left with a plain-glazed door set back to the left and a plain shop window on the right, which has a canted corner. There is also a large segmentally-arched boarded entrance that leads to a passageway to the rear.

On the first floor, there is a plain 4-pane sash window on the left with a moulded stucco surround, and on the right, a canted wooden oriel bay with plain Victorian sash glazing, moulded eaves, and a hipped roof. The second floor features two smaller 4-pane sash windows tucked beneath the eaves.

The rear section of the shop, which is elevated, is the main part of the building. It has a beamed ceiling on the ground floor with stopped-chamfered main beams and closely spaced joists. There is an angled corner fireplace with a stopped-chamfered bressummer. Above the fireplace, a large plasterwork cartouche displays strapwork relief decoration and the date 1639 in raised figures, along with entwined initials at the center. The first-floor room facing the front has a timber-framed, close-studded wall of late medieval character visible on one gable end, likely the end wall of a replaced neighboring house rather than part of the original structure. Below the rear ground-floor section, there is a cellar with trap-door access, which is partly rock-cut and presumably of medieval origin, linked to an earlier building on the site. The ground floor has been modernized and features modern partitioning.

Local climate

Pretty Woman (Beauty Salon) 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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