Literally.
When they’re available next spring, you could buy a brand new Taylor Woodrow/Bryant Homes property for between c.£160,00 and £300,000 at Glasdir’s Parc Rhuthun site. Or you could buy a slice of history.
Here is a brief selection of three of Rhuthun’s houses currently on the market, offering the buyer an opportunity to own some of the town’s heritage.
Apartment at Scott House
Near Castell Rhuthun Castle
£270,000
One of six apartments at this imposing 1930s building, Scott House sits quietly within four acres and overlooks open countryside, yet is on the very fringe of the town.
Accessible by its own private drive and bridge over the Clwyd, it was once part of the Castell Rhuthun Castle estate, believed to have been built as a nurses’ home for the hospital at what is now the adjacent Castell Rhuthun Castle.
Clwyd Bank
Clwyd Street
£265,000
This has been on the market for some while, so perhaps the owners may be receptive to a reasonable officer.
Another imposing house, this time in the town centre itself, it was once a private grammar school, under the tutelage of respected musician and composer of hymns Joseph David Jones (1827-70). Jones composed ‘Capel-y-Ddol’. His son Sir Henry Hadyn Jones, raised in Rhuthun, was MP for Meirionethshire from 1910 to 1945.
Clwyd Bank is described by the estate agents as a Grad 11 (sic) listed building (perhaps they mean Grade II or 2?). There’s no doubt of this property’s character.
Railway Terrace
Station Road
c.£140,000 each
Two adjacent properties available, each with two beds. Built in a by-gone age for railway workers. The railway arrived in Rhuthun from Rhyl in 1863 and 100 years latter was ripped up, under Dr Beeching’s reforms. The terrace fronts the old track-bed. The large house also on the old track-bed next to King’s hardware is called “Beeching’s Folly”. This name and the name of the terrace and road are the only reminders of the railway in Rhuthun.
The railway was believed to be of sufficient influence that Market Street was cut from the site of the old station (now the so-called Briec roundabout) to St Peter’s Square, to accommodate passenger arrivals. Market Street simply didn’t exist before the railway.
Perhaps the modern-day equivalent is the construction of the northern link road to assist in the arrival of Tesco and in the development of land at Glasdir.
When they’re available next spring, you could buy a brand new Taylor Woodrow/Bryant Homes property for between c.£160,00 and £300,000 at Glasdir’s Parc Rhuthun site. Or you could buy a slice of history.
Here is a brief selection of three of Rhuthun’s houses currently on the market, offering the buyer an opportunity to own some of the town’s heritage.
Apartment at Scott House
Near Castell Rhuthun Castle
£270,000
One of six apartments at this imposing 1930s building, Scott House sits quietly within four acres and overlooks open countryside, yet is on the very fringe of the town.Accessible by its own private drive and bridge over the Clwyd, it was once part of the Castell Rhuthun Castle estate, believed to have been built as a nurses’ home for the hospital at what is now the adjacent Castell Rhuthun Castle.
Clwyd Bank
Clwyd Street
£265,000
This has been on the market for some while, so perhaps the owners may be receptive to a reasonable officer.
Another imposing house, this time in the town centre itself, it was once a private grammar school, under the tutelage of respected musician and composer of hymns Joseph David Jones (1827-70). Jones composed ‘Capel-y-Ddol’. His son Sir Henry Hadyn Jones, raised in Rhuthun, was MP for Meirionethshire from 1910 to 1945.
Clwyd Bank is described by the estate agents as a Grad 11 (sic) listed building (perhaps they mean Grade II or 2?). There’s no doubt of this property’s character.
Railway Terrace
Station Road
c.£140,000 each
Two adjacent properties available, each with two beds. Built in a by-gone age for railway workers. The railway arrived in Rhuthun from Rhyl in 1863 and 100 years latter was ripped up, under Dr Beeching’s reforms. The terrace fronts the old track-bed. The large house also on the old track-bed next to King’s hardware is called “Beeching’s Folly”. This name and the name of the terrace and road are the only reminders of the railway in Rhuthun.The railway was believed to be of sufficient influence that Market Street was cut from the site of the old station (now the so-called Briec roundabout) to St Peter’s Square, to accommodate passenger arrivals. Market Street simply didn’t exist before the railway.
Perhaps the modern-day equivalent is the construction of the northern link road to assist in the arrival of Tesco and in the development of land at Glasdir.