Including Yu's Chinese is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 September 1951. House. 7 related planning applications.
Including Yu's Chinese
- WRENN ID
- deep-mortar-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 September 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Including Yu's Chinese, 18 High Street, St. Asaph
- OS grid reference
- SJ 037 743
- Coordinates
- 53.25703, -3.44449
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
This is a six-window building, likely dating from the 18th century, and originally comprising numbers 1, 1a, and 1b. The front elevation is rendered with some incised detail, featuring broad end pilaster strips and a band course on the first two properties. It has a tall, hipped slate roof with a central brick chimney stack and coved cornice eaves, punctuated by four dormers with modern windows. The upper floors retain Georgian 12-pane sash windows.
The ground floor has been altered with modern shop fronts and doors, with a particularly elaborate console bracketed hood incorporating a panelled soffit on the left-hand end. The rear elevation is of brick, steeply gabled, and includes extensions and a lean-to addition. Small-pane sash windows are retained at the rear of numbers 1 and 1a, while number 1b has modern windows.
Inside number 1, much of the original structure remains, including the roof trusses and an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a swept handrail with a wave profile. There are also panelled doors. A fireplace in the basement to the rear has a unique detail: a lintel with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Including Yu's Chinese 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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