Moelfa is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. Terrace of cottages.

Moelfa

WRENN ID
noble-gargoyle-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 May 1978
Type
Terrace of cottages
Address
Moelfa, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 126 581
Coordinates
53.11373, -3.30609
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Moelfa is part of a group of 15 cottages known as Railway Terrace, built from brick and topped with a slate roof and brick ridge stacks. These two-storey cottages each feature a single window range, with the doorway positioned to the right and a window to the left, while the stack is also located to the left. Architectural details include a dressed stone sill band on the upper storey, a moulded wooden eaves cornice, and a partly rendered brick plinth. The windows have cambered heads made of gauged brickwork, with the oldest surviving windows being hornless 6-pane sashes. The doorways are round-arched with stone architraves, and some still have their original panelled doors and plain fanlights. At the rear, each cottage has a lower narrow gabled wing offset to the left. The earliest windows are 6-pane sashes beneath segmental heads, although many have been altered. Some cottages feature flat-roofed additions between the wings, particularly towards the southern end of the terrace.

Moelfa has a wider doorway that contains late 20th-century double panelled and glazed doors, set beneath a plain tympanum. The cottage itself is wider, suggesting that the doorway may lead to a through-passage, with access to the cottage on the left. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Moelfa 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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