52 Water Street is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Mill.
52 Water Street
- WRENN ID
- deep-buttress-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1994
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- 52 Water Street, Rhyl, LL18 1SR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 005 814
- Coordinates
- 53.32058, -3.49385
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
52 Water Street is a 19th-century building constructed of red brick with gold terracotta bands and dressings, topped with a slate roof. It features a row of four shops on the Water Street side, which are now used as offices, and a larger shop at the corner with Crescent Road that has distinctive architectural details. The Water Street elevation includes two prominent pedimented bays that house entrances and are flanked by shop fronts. The first floor has outer and paired central canted oriel windows. The doorways are recessed within segmental arches that are adorned with mannerist pilasters.
The flanking shop fronts also have recessed doorways and curved shop windows, which are separated by slim mullions and high-set transoms, featuring small upper panes. Above the doorways, there are sash windows. The higher corner block showcases large segmentally arched windows with scrolled voussoirs and small upper panes on each floor, positioned between mannerist pilasters on the ground floor and plain pilasters above. A continuous moulded cornice and blocking course bands run along the top.
The entrance at the corner is framed by a segmentally arched architrave, with a hoodmould supported by bold mannerist brackets. Above this, there is a canted turret that is corbelled out, featuring three narrow sash windows with rubbed brick heads and an ogee leaded roof topped with a fleche. Decorative low relief panelling, which includes a clock, is located below the roof. The building has segmentally arched pedimented gables with ball finials and scrolled kneelers at the attic level on either side of the tower, as well as in the rear return facing Water Street, which also features oculi in cartouches with keystones and voussoirs.
Local climate
52 Water Street 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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