Period Pieces

Two grade II listed properties are currently on the market in Rhuthun/Ruthin. 

The Wynnstay

Purple Bricks calls it 'stunning and substantial'. Half of the former Wynnstay Arms, all seven bedrooms, is up for sale at £400,000. This is the part called The Wynnstay and it's on the corner of Well Street and Dog Lane. Most recently, this half used to be a bed and breakfast and we think that if you go back far enough it was run by the people who had the Miners' Arms at Maeshafn.  

Contrast The Wynnstay with the adjoining Wynnstay House, the other part of the former pub. When viewed from Wynnstay House, externally The Wynnstay looks a little down at heal.

Significant work now undertaken on Wynnstay House suggests that successive previous owners may have bodged things up a bit. Given that the two halves were once the whole pub, might it also suggest that the now-for-sale The Wynnstay will also need much alteration and refurbishment? (There was recent work to the roof.)

Update 27/4/23: After only 11 days on the market, this was reduced by £60,000 to £340,000. That's a drop of 17 per cent.

Plas yn Dre

Meanwhile, if you're after a true period piece, Plas yn Rhos is available. It last found its way on to the market in October 2020, just after the owner cleaned the frontage. She took it off the market unsold in February 2021. 

Its current asking price is £5,000 more than it was in 2020. £600,000 is a lot of money for three beds but Plas yn Rhos is listed, double fronted, on Clwyd Street and has much character. As Williams Estates puts it, it has a 'wealth of period detail and splendour'. Splendour! Not a word you hear often from Williams Estates. 

It was sold in 2016 for £375,000, representing a 209 per cent return on the original investment, less work undertaken to the driveway and frontage cleaning. ONS data for Wales suggests that the average house price between 2016 and February 2023 has increased more modestly, from £140,000 to £215,000.