Corporation Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 May 1978. Public house.

Corporation Arms Public House

WRENN ID
carved-glass-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
16 May 1978
Type
Public house
Address
Corporation Arms Public House, Ruthin
OS grid reference
SJ 123 582
Coordinates
53.11403, -3.31091
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Corporation Arms Public House is an asymmetrical building with three windows, standing two-and-a-half storeys tall. It features a projecting bay with a hipped roof on the right side. The upper storeys are covered in stucco and lined beneath a shallow slate roof, with a clustered brick ridge stack at the center and a brick end stack on the left.

The ground floor showcases a late 19th-century projecting public house front with a flat roof, displaying classical-style details such as a moulded eaves cornice and a plat band. The upper storey windows are adorned with moulded architraves that include keystones and aprons. The first-floor windows are set under segmental hoodmoulds and feature hornless 12-pane sash windows. The central window has been converted into a doorway with a 20th-century half-glazed wooden door.

The attic includes half-dormers with coped segmental heads positioned between pinnacles topped with orb finials. The attic windows have architraves with stepped heads and contain 3-over-6-pane sashes. There is a scrolled ironwork bracket on the right-hand bay for attaching a sign.

The ground floor projection is timber-framed with a flat roof and has window bands, along with a rendered plinth. The central doorway is flanked by a blind arch on the left and another entrance on the far left, all set between fluted pilasters with scrolled capitals that support a fascia and dentilled cornice. The central entrance features a panelled door with a plain overlight beneath a segmental head, accompanied by narrow sidelights. To the left of the central doorway, there is a round-arched wooden panel bearing a tablet. The far left has an inset doorway that may lead to a through-passage, featuring double boarded doors with a small-pane overlight.

The windows throughout the building have narrow moulded mullions and transoms, with quarry glazing and Art Nouveau-style stained glass. On the left of the central doorway, there are two 2-light windows divided by a colonette, while on the right, there are three similar windows also divided by colonettes, with the left and central windows boarded over beneath the transom.

The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Corporation Arms 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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