Bathafarn Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1966. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Bathafarn Hall
- WRENN ID
- second-shingle-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1966
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Bathafarn Hall, Llanrhydd, Ruthin, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, LL15 2UU
- OS grid reference
- SJ 148 579
- Coordinates
- 53.1115, -3.27366
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bathafarn Hall is a square, two-storey country house built of roughcast brick, featuring sandstone window dressings and cement-plaster detailing. It has a hipped slate roof with three plain rendered chimneys. The building has symmetrical west (entrance) and south fronts, both adorned with moulded cornices and applied pilasters. The west front consists of three bays and includes a central entrance with a large pedimented doorcase that is stepped up. This doorcase has bolection-moulded and rusticated treatment in cement, with 6-panel, raised and fielded double doors. The elegant sash windows are unhorned, consist of 12 panes, and have projecting sandstone sills with moulded cement labels, along with external louvred and painted wooden shutters.
The south side features five bays, with the central three forming a large storeyed segmental bow. This section has a stepped-up open ground-floor stage supported by plain rendered pilasters. On the ground floor, there are 20-pane French windows flanked by tall 15-pane sashes. The remaining ground and first-floor windows are shuttered sashes, consistent with the rest of the house.
The east side has four bays, with the three left-hand bays displaying similar windows. The right-hand bay is recessed and features windows on three floors, including a 16-pane unhorned sash on the upper floor and tripartite windows on the ground and first floors. The tripartite windows have central sections of 12 panes and 6 panes, respectively, flanked by narrow sections of 4 and 2 panes. The rear elevation is asymmetrical, with unshuttered sash windows and a large stair-light.
Attached to the east elevation on the right is a four-bay, single-storey, flat-roofed addition from the early 20th century, which has 12-pane sashes on the front and a modern part-glazed door in its recessed right-hand section, along with another modern entrance to the north. There is also a further single-storey extension from the 20th century adjoining to the north.
Inside, there is a large early 20th-century well stair featuring a moulded oak rail, treads, and risers, with turned, painted balusters leading to the first-floor galleried landing, and a panelled understair area.
Local climate
Bathafarn Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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