Former Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Mill.
Former Mill
- WRENN ID
- winding-rubble-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Former Mill, Clwyd Street, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 121 581
- Coordinates
- 53.11309, -3.31419
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This former mill is a large two-storey building, constructed on the ground floor with large blocks of coursed grey stone and some red sandstone, sitting on a rubble plinth. The upper part is made of rough red brick, which has been painted, and it is topped with a slate roof. At the rear, there is a lateral brick stack rising from a gable, next to a lower two-storey rear wing.
The front of the building features original elements, including a wheel-arch to the right of the center, which has a wide segmental arch made of stone voussoirs that has been infilled with a door and glazing. To the far left, there is an entrance with a pointed arch made of moulded red sandstone, also infilled with glazing. To the right of the wheel-arch, there is a red sandstone lancet that is now blocked. The remaining openings are from the late 20th century, featuring concrete lintels, wooden doors, and plain-glazed wooden casements. Between the original entrance and the wheel-arch, there is a door to the left and a window to the right, with a similar arrangement to the right of the wheel-arch. The upper storey has six windows, and there are skylights in the roof pitch. Each gable end has a red sandstone lancet in a heavy surround, with a sunken sandstone cross on the east gable. In the raised brickwork section, the east gable end has a tall mid-level wooden window to the left and two small lights in the gable, while the west gable end has two two-light casements in the attic. The rear elevation is roughcast, with openings that are part of a late 20th-century conversion, featuring wooden doors and two-light wooden casements similar to the front. The attic has three small gabled dormers with two-light casements and a skylight to the right.
The rear wing, which is continuous with the east gable end, is made of painted rubble with brick patching and has a slate roof with a brick ridge stack. The east front has ground floor openings under segmental heads of stone voussoirs, including a wide boarded door to the left of center, a lower door in the center, and a small window opening to the right. The upper storey has three irregular late 20th-century wooden windows grouped to the far right, while four former window openings have been infilled with brick. The south gable end features a large uPVC window. The rear has a large lean-to with late 20th-century openings related to the conversion.
The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Former Mill 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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