A two ? and ? a ? half storeyed house with a second ? half 19th century facade and an earlier core. The island block to which this building belongs appears in John Speed's depiction of Denbigh in his county map of 1610 and represents an early encroachment into the Market place. The present building is either a replacement of, or more likely, a remodeling of that shown in his early map.

Threads Wool Store as it is presently being used was listed as a house with good 19th century character with probably earlier origins, its group value with other listed items on Back Row and because of it being a part of the island group of buildings, which is of significant interest as it sheds light on the towns development and morphology during the Middle Ages.

Constructed of rendered rubble and brick with stucco ? plastered quoins and architraves; shallow ? pitched slate roof with simple 19th century brick chimney stack to the right. The ground floor has 20th century shop front of 3 multi ? pane shallow bow windows, with a modern door to the right which is part glazed with small panes. The shop front sits beneath a moulded and dentilated cornice below a shallow slated canopy with 3 shaped supporting brackets. Two paired 4 ? pane Victorian sashes to the first floor with plain surrounds. The top floor has two paired 2 ? pane sashes, sitting beneath an arched fanlight, these windows also have plain surrounds but feature expressed keys. These are themselves contained within shallow gabled dormers which have simply ? moulded bargeboards and shaped wooden finials.

Internally the property retains a late 17th century staircase with turned balusters, moulded hand-rail and square capped newels.

D. Jones RCAHMW 19/04/2012

References:

Hubbard E, Clwyd, Buildings of Wales series, 1986, p150.

Cadw Listed Buildings Database (No. 23552)