The Old Vaults PH is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Townhouse. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Vaults PH
- WRENN ID
- far-pediment-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- The Old Vaults PH, 40-42 High Street, Denbigh - Town, Denbigh, LL16 3RY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 052 660
- Coordinates
- 53.18321, -3.41999
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Old Vaults Public House is a tall and elegant building dating from the 18th century, situated alongside a later, long range with a pitched roof extending to the rear. The building is constructed of red/brown brick with stone quoins and a stone-coped parapet, which returns approximately 2 metres on the sides, covered by slate roofs. The main facade is symmetrical and four storeys high, with a parapet. The ground floor is set back behind a colonnade of four stone Tuscan columns which support the upper levels. The columns have tall, square plinths, and the ground floor features a recent, small-paned bar entrance on the left. Above the colonnade are tall, square, 12-pane sash windows with segmental brick heads and projecting keystones, along with projecting stone sills. The windows have horns.
The left (east-facing) side of the building, overlooking the narrow Broomhill Lane, retains four original, unhorned 12-pane sashes on the first floor. There are two entrances to the ground floor, the left one within a section of whitened brick with a recently altered entrance and a modern panelled door. Modern casement windows are present on the second floor. Various sash windows, including one currently boarded, are found on the ground floor, particularly within the whitened brick section.
The interior of the building was not inspected during the survey.
Local climate
The Old Vaults PH 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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