196 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Ruthin CastleGrade I listedParish and Collegiate Church of St PeterGrade I listedFormer MillGrade II listedAnnexe of Castle HotelGrade II listedPost OfficeGrade II listed+22See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

c. 1795

c. 1805

c. 1830

c. 1853

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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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Clwyd Street19 listed · 1 II*

Railway Terrace14 listed

Well Street14 listed

Castle Street9 listed · 1 II*

Mwrog Street9 listed

St Peter's Square5 listed

Upper Clwyd Street5 listed

Of the 196 entries, 83 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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

The first 36 entries were listed in 1950, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 107 came in 1978. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Welsh Government (Cadw).

Maen Huail Historic StoneUnknown; Stone

Ruthin CastleMedieval; Castle

Ruthin Churchyard Ornamental Wrought Iron Gates & ScreenPost Medieval/Modern; Gate

2 registered parks and gardens

Nantclwyd HouseGrade II · Walled town garden

Ruthin CastleGrade II · Landscape park; formal garden; shrubbery walks

Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.

Margaret Grey, Lady Bonville

Thomas Exmewe

Gabriel Goodman

Godfrey Goodman

Henry Haydn Jones

John Challen

Daisy, Princess of Pless

George Cornwallis-West

Constance Lewis

Charles Foweraker

Albert Thomas

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Daisy, Princess of Pless1873–1943 · British socialite born in Wales

Constance Lewis1876–1970 · British yacht racer (1877–1970)

Henry Haydn Jones1863–1950 · British politician (1863-1950)

John Challen1863–1937 · Welsh footballer (1863-1937)

George Cornwallis-West1874–1951 · British Army officer and author (1874-1951)

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Albert Thomas1893–1965 · Welsh cricketer (1893-1965)

Gabriel Goodman1528–1601 · Welsh priest and Dean of Westminster

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Godfrey Goodman1582–1656 · British bishop

Everyone born in Ruthin → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Ruthin: per resident it has more than 95% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 196 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 3 of them stand within 400 m of Ruthin Castle. Only 30 of the 908 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On Clwyd Street alone there are 19 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. Most entries on the list, 56%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: it also has 3 scheduled monuments; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.