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History of Gwespyr · Cadw

5 listed buildings

Cadw counts them inside Gwespyr’s built-up area, 136 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Gwespyr is Grade II. 25% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
5
136 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
25%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Gwespyr’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Talacre, registered park or garden
Park or garden

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

5 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*5 Grade II

Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.

Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.

Grade II

5 Grade II listed buildings

Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.

All 5 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 4.9% of Gwespyr

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Gwespyr 19835 ha
5 hain conservation areas, of 105 ha inside the built-up area.

3 of the 5 listed buildings stand in one.

Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 registered park or garden

TalacreGrade II* · Small landscape park; informal pleasure grounds
Homes by age

25% of Gwespyr’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

19%
Before 1900
5.2%
1900–18
5.2%
1919–29
16%
1930s
5.2%
1945–54
6.3%
1955–64
15%
1965–72
7.8%
1973–82
4.7%
1983–92
4.7%
1993–99
3.1%
2000–08
4.2%
2009–15
3.6%
2016–25
GwespyrEngland & Wales

19% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 16% of today’s homes.

Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Gwespyr

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Gwespyr36750—
Prestatyn16,678150C−
Meliden2,00280B−
Dyserth2,038110B−
Rhyl26,982990B+
Rhuddlan3,791210B−
Holywell7,741941B+
West Kirby13,38380C+
In brief

Gwespyr in brief

Old houses are part of Gwespyr’s character: 25% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 5 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1983. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1962 and 2001.

Questions about Gwespyr’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Gwespyr?

Cadw lists 5 buildings inside Gwespyr’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 5 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Gwespyr?

1, covering about 5 hectares of the town. The largest is Gwespyr.

How old are the homes in Gwespyr?

25% of homes were built before 1919 and 46% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Gwespyr has no History Grade.

Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.

Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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