Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 February 1981. Townhouse.

Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 February 1981
Type
Townhouse
Address
Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh
OS grid reference
SJ 052 661
Coordinates
53.1844, -3.41883
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Tan-y-Graig is a large three-storey Georgian townhouse, constructed with roughcast over brick and rubble, featuring late 19th-century plaster quoins and architraves around most openings. The building has a hipped slate roof with two squat central chimneys made of stuccoed brick. Its facade is asymmetrical with four bays, and the entrance is located in the third bay from the left. At the time of the survey, the entrance had a boarded-up door with a rectangular, marginally-glazed overlight above it. Flanking the entrance are two large rectangular bay windows supported by wooden pilasters, which carry entablatures with modillion cornices; both bay windows were also boarded at the time of inspection. To the left of these are two smaller windows, which were similarly boarded. The first and second floors feature elegant 12- and 9-pane sash windows, all unhorned, near-flush, and with cambered heads. They have lugged stucco surrounds with projecting keys and bracketed sills. The right gable end has similar 12-pane windows on the ground and first floors, with an additional 9-pane sash on the top floor.

Adjoining to the left of the main building is a low two-storey, two-bay service block that is rendered and slated. It has an entrance on the right and plain windows, with simple plaster surrounds; these openings were also boarded at the time of inspection.

In front of the main building, there is a small forecourt enclosed by a well-crafted late 19th-century terracotta balustrade. This balustrade features bulbous turned balusters with a moulded rail on a moulded plinth, and includes square gate piers on the right, with a curved end section beyond. The right-hand pier has a collar for a former ball finial, while the left one is missing its finial.

The interior of the building was not inspected during the survey.

Local climate

Tan-y-Graig, including forecourt balustrade 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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