The Griffin Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 June 1999. Public house.

The Griffin Public House

WRENN ID
long-clay-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 June 1999
Type
Public house
Address
The Griffin Public House, Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 144 593
Coordinates
53.12415, -3.28028
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Griffin Public House is a two-storey village inn built in the Rustic Tudorbethan style. It features a construction of whitened rubble and has a slated roof with oversailing eaves and verges, which have plain bargeboards. The building has brick end chimneys topped with simple cornicing. The main front is symmetrical with three bays, where the central entrance bay is slightly advanced and gabled. This bay includes a later hipped-roofed open porch, which is raised slightly and accessed by a short flight of brick steps. The porch is supported by two pairs of plain pilasters at the front and has a boarded and studded main door.

Windows have chamfered stone surrounds and projecting stone sills, each fitted with original tripartite cast-iron glazing that features diagonal lattice-design bars and cusped heads. There are additional similar windows on the right return, alongside a modern single-storey extension. To the left gable, there is a hipped-roofed projection that is recessed, with a long, lower addition adjoining to the northeast, parallel to the road. A short stretch of whitened rubble wall connects this addition to the west corner of the main block. The interiors are modern, featuring largely 20th-century details.

Local climate

The Griffin Public House 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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