47, Vale Street is a late 18th century, brick-built, 3-storey, hip-roof, town-house, used by and perhaps built for, the Griffith family of Garn, Henllan (ref.CADW). It has a central-entry, stair-lobby, end-chimney plan with 2-storey, stone-built rear-wing facing Post Office Lane.
The facade is of red brick in Flemish bond with chamfered sandstone quoins and Venetian windows flanking the entrance and first-floor. The 6-panel entrance doorway has a glazed rectangular over-light and consoles to a cornice canopy.
This entrance leads to a well-stair of turned newels and balusters with curved and swept-up moulded hand-rail. Opposing doorways (slightly altered) lead to a parlour to left with narrow pantry-room at rear and blocked end fireplace chimney. To the right, a full depth reception room has a blocked end-fireplace chimney, but retains a plaster moulded cornice (see sketch). The rear-wing is reached under the stair, having a service-room with a pair of boxed axial ceiling-beams and a probable kitchen beyond with single boxed axial ceiling-beam. The service-room retains a horizontal sliding-sash window to rear wall in present passage.
At first-floor the rooms are of similar size with a room over the hall-lobby and there are some surviving plaster cornices on the stair landing walls. The second-floor is similar with low ceilings and tie-beam ceiling-beams.
The roof purlins are supported partly by brick walls which rise from the stair-lobby cross-walls and by a pair of king-post tie-beam trusses each with a hip-truss pegged on at the end wall. The common-rafters are mortise and tenon jointed at the apex (see sketch & section). All the timbers are of oak with pegged mortise and tenon joints and have carpenter's assembly marks.
The facade's brick Flemish bond, its Venetian windows and sandstone quoins are all of similar style to 52, Vale Street (Grove Place), almost opposite and probably both of similar ca1783 date.

Visited, Geoff Ward, 25/03/2004.