Nos.1-8 Elizabeth Owen Charity Almshouses is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1980. Almshouse.
Nos.1-8 Elizabeth Owen Charity Almshouses
- WRENN ID
- peeling-spire-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1980
- Type
- Almshouse
- Address
- Nos.1-8 Elizabeth Owen Charity Almshouses, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd, Ruthin
- OS grid reference
- SJ 133 554
- Coordinates
- 53.08885, -3.29465
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Nos. 1-8 Elizabeth Owen Charity Almshouses is a terrace of nine two-storey almshouses that has been converted to eight. The front elevation is designed to appear as seven similar almshouses, with an additional chimney to maintain a symmetrical look. The front is constructed from uncoursed local limestone and features a slate roof with a decorative crested ridge. The central unit is gabled, projects slightly, and has decorative bargeboards and a finial. It also carries a plaque that reads 'The Order of Malta Homes Trust, Elizabeth Owen Terrace' between two Maltese crosses.
Each almshouse in the front elevation has one centrally placed upper window, one left-hand ground floor window, and one right-hand ground floor doorway. The windows are all two-light casements, with each light being two panes wide and featuring arched heads, except for the ground-floor window of the central almshouse, which is five panes wide. The ground floor openings have stone lintels, and the doors are boarded.
The right-hand return elevation is made of stone rubble and includes a lower rear cross-wing that contains two additional almshouses. These have similar windows and doors, but the first-floor windows are positioned above the ground floor windows. There are steps leading up to the right-hand side.
The front garden is enclosed by a low stone wall.
Local climate
Nos.1-8 Elizabeth Owen Charity Almshouses 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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