Rosslyn is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. School, house.

Rosslyn

WRENN ID
worn-eave-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
School, house
Address
Rosslyn, St. Asaph
OS grid reference
SJ 039 743
Coordinates
53.25722, -3.44084
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rosslyn is a Tudor-style school building, said to be dated 1857, designed by H John Fairclough of St Asaph, with plans recorded in 1862. It is a single-storey, asymmetrical structure with four bays, incorporating a two-storey, two-window house at the left end, which features an advanced gable bay. This is balanced by a broader gable end for the school hall at the right end. The building is constructed from snecked hammer-dressed rubble with freestone dressings, including quoins, gable parapets, and around the window and door openings, as well as a plinth. The roofs are slate with stone chimney stacks and cappings, and there are cross roofs over the gable-ended bays.

The left gable has a blocked attic, while the right gable features a punched trefoil above a three-light east elevation hall window with apex finials. The central part of the front has a four-light square-headed window flanked by pointed arch entrances with half-glazed doors. The gabled bay of the house has bipartite windows, and there are similar tripartite windows set back to the left.

The left gable end is finished in random coursed rubble and has a sash window above the entrance. A parallel range set back to the left extends with similar detailing and a modern window. The rear elevation is mixed, with a steeper slate roof and small pane sash windows on the house. The right side gable end has a hall window similar to that on the front.

The front of the building retains Gothic traceried iron railings and a gate on a low rubble wall. Inside, the hall features arched braced trusses in a four-bay layout, ceiled at collar level, with diagonally set trusses spanning the two central bays and a small pane glazed partition in the middle, along with a carved bracket corbel.

Local climate

Rosslyn 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 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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