The Hendre is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. Bridge.

The Hendre

WRENN ID
roaming-sill-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
Bridge
Address
The Hendre, St. Asaph
OS grid reference
SJ 032 738
Coordinates
53.25315, -3.45086
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Hendre is an L-plan building, likely from the 17th century, featuring a cross passage type. It has Georgian-style windows and a symmetrical front, with alterations and additions made in the mid-19th century. The building is two stories tall and has a four-window front made of scribed render, with advanced gabled end bays and a plinth. The roof is slate and undulating, with tall rendered chimney stacks, one of which is a stellar type and may have originally served the hall. The guttering and rainwater heads feature lion heads, and the bargeboards have been renewed but now lack pendants and finials.

The end bays have Venetian small pane sash windows, while the center features 16-pane sashes, all with Tudor labels and nearly flush frames. A central pitched roof porch from the same period has highly ornate foliage trail bargeboards and a Tudor label over a pointed arch entrance, with panelled double doors and bracketed sills for the small side openings.

The right side of the building has a two-window scribed render facade, a broad chimney breast, and a modern garage extension. The ground floor features deeply recessed similar windows and modern splayed bays. The rear gable end of the cross range is roughcast, with a dog-legged roof on the inner side. The left gable end is whitewashed brick, featuring a chimney breast and one small pane sash window. Attached to the left end is a two-story, two-window whitewashed brick former bell tower, which may have originally had a pyramidal roof and was said to have been used for calling the staff. This tower has round arched openings with imposts and giant sills. The rear of the building has a whitewashed brick facade with four plus two windows, higher to the left behind the bell tower, and features a lean-to roof and attic dormer. Most windows are small pane sashes, with some having cambered heads on the ground floor, and there is one sliding sash window on the return wall of the cross range.

Inside, the drawing room of Plas yn Roe retains window shutters, stop-chamfered beams, and a broad fireplace with a flue to the stellar stack. There is a blocked Tudor opening leading to the passage. The interiors of The Hendre have not been seen.

Local climate

The Hendre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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