Conservative Club is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. A C17 Club. 3 related planning applications.
Conservative Club
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-tin-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Conservative Club, 24-26 Well Street, Ruthin, LL15 1AN
- OS grid reference
- SJ 125 581
- Coordinates
- 53.11351, -3.30794
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Conservative Club is a large building with a four-window range, two storeys, and an attic, constructed of red sandstone that is battered towards the base. It features a slate roof with brick end stacks. The windows, likely from the 20th century, have original stone hoodmoulds. The entrance is to the right of the centre and includes a half-glazed panelled door beneath a simple flat-roofed wooden porch supported by plain posts. The windows are transomed 3-light small-pane wooden casements, except for the one above the doorway, which is a 4-light, and the lower left window, which has a 2-light replacement. At mid-level, between the left of centre windows, there is a sandstone panel with a raised border that formerly displayed a date, now damaged, and currently holds a plaque detailing the building's history. Under the eaves, there are three tall corbels with ironwork. The attic storey has three small gabled dormers fitted with uPVC windows. The west gable is rendered and has no openings, with a late 20th-century addition beneath it. There are two gabled rear wings that are rendered, featuring modern openings and infill between them, along with large flat-roofed blocks from the mid to late 20th century.
Inside, the entrance leads to a stair-hall with a staircase at the rear, a large open-plan bar to the left, and an office to the right. The small open-well stair has turned newels, plain balusters, and well-moulded handrails. The bar area was previously divided into four rooms by a central chimney breast, which has been removed and replaced with posts. The ceiling features two large medium-chamfered spine beams with cut stops. Behind the office, there is a room with cross-beams that have lambs-tongue stops, and a large red sandstone fireplace with a wide segmental arch, which is said to have been reconstructed. On the first floor, the function room is open-plan, retaining the 17th-century ceiling seen on the ground floor, and includes a small stone fireplace at the west end with a pointed-arched head, likely modern, and a stage at the east end.
Local climate
Conservative Club 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- 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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