Bryn Collen, including forecourt walls and railings is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 July 2000. Terraced houses.

Bryn Collen, including forecourt walls and railings

WRENN ID
little-outpost-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 July 2000
Type
Terraced houses
Address
Bryn Collen, including forecourt walls and railings, 68 Vale Street, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh, LL16 3BW
OS grid reference
SJ 055 662
Coordinates
53.18532, -3.41485
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bryn Collen comprises six terraced houses at numbers 66–76 Vale Street, known as Windsor Terrace. The houses are of brick construction with glazed brick facades. The upper four houses (66, 68, 70, 72) feature additional decorative banding in yellow and blue bricks, while all houses share a continuous slate roof with end and shared chimneys. The latter are staged, with banding to the upper four houses and oversailing and laced courses to numbers 74–76. The chimneys to numbers 68 and 70 have been reduced slightly. All houses have oversailing and corbelled eaves, with additional banding to all save the latter pair. The ground floor of each house is raised slightly above a basement floor and is accessed via a flight of low parapeted steps.

The upper four houses are arranged with symmetrical reflection: numbers 66 and 68 are reflected by numbers 70 and 72. Each unit is of 2 bays with arched entrances, those to the central two correspondingly paired. The central units have large segmentally-arched, tripartite windows with expressed keys and imposts to the arches. The outer two units have single-storey canted bay windows with flat, parapeted roofs. Recessed original doors feature tall glazed upper panels and plain-glazed segmental overlights. Plain Victorian sashes are used throughout. The second floor has two segmentally-arched windows to each of the central pair (numbers 68 and 70), and paired and single arched windows to the outer units (numbers 66 and 72), with banding at sill and springing level. Each unit has a large glazed dormer to the attic floor with hipped, slated roofs featuring oversailing, corbelled eaves and finials; arched lights are paired to the front and 4-light to the sides.

The lower pair (numbers 74 and 76) have similar entrances and 2-storey canted bays to the right and left respectively. These have hipped slate roofs and oversailing, corbelled eaves, with stone sillcourses returned onto the main facade as decorative terracotta banding. The left and right units respectively have single and paired first-floor sashes; number 74 has an additional entrance to the ground floor, similar to and immediately to the right of the main entrance, functioning as a through-passage door giving access to the rear. The second floor has paired small rectangular windows and paired arched windows to each unit, the latter above the bays. These are crowned by large gables with deep verges and cusped and pierced bargeboards featuring geometric pendant-finials, with decorative terracotta rosettes in the gable apexes. Plain sashes and projecting stone sills are used throughout.

Each house has low brick forecourt walls with sandstone copings; all save number 74 are surmounted by simple railings.

Local climate

Bryn Collen, including forecourt walls and railings 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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