Siop Llyfr is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. A C17 Residential.
Siop Llyfr
- WRENN ID
- distant-mantel-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1978
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Siop Llyfr, 3 Upper Clwyd Street, Upper Clwyd Street, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 123 582
- Coordinates
- 53.11415, -3.31108
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Siop Llyfr is a two-storey, long, three-unit building with a taller flat-roofed projection added to the front of the left unit, which now serves as the entrance. There is a rear wing behind the right-hand unit. The main range features lined-out render over timber-framing, set on a plinth, and has a slate roof that is hipped to the left end, with a brick ridge stack positioned to the right of the center. The projecting bay on the left is rendered and has coped parapets above a saw-tooth brick cornice. This bay includes a boarded door on the right and a fixed 16-pane window on the left, with a small-pane top-hung window directly above it on the upper storey. The main range to the right has two windows, featuring a three-light wooden casement on the left and a plain-glazed window on the right. The upper storey has small-pane top-hung windows just below the eaves, along with skylights on the right roof pitch. There are no openings on the west gable end. The lower two-storey rear wing is rendered and has an entrance on the west side, which includes an old boarded door on the left within a half-glazed wooden lean-to porch. To the right, there are small-pane top-hung windows on each storey, and the gable end is made of brick.
Inside, the building features a ceiling with 17th-century details, including medium-chamfered spine beams with ogee stops and some chamfered joists that have decorative stops. There have been some alterations and patching to the ceiling, and while the fireplace remains, it is currently blocked.
Local climate
Siop Llyfr 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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