47, Vale Street, is a late-eighteenth-century, brick-built, three-storey, hip-roof, town house, used by and perhaps built for, the Griffith family of Garn, Henllan.
It has a central-entry stair and end-chimney plan with two-storey rear-wing facing Post Office Lane. The façade is of red brick in Flemish bond with chamfered sandstone quoins and Venetian windows flanking the entrance and the first floor. The 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 with a hip-truss pegged on at each end. The common rafters are mortise and tenon jointed at the apex. All the timbers are of oak with pegged mortise and tenon joints and have carpenter's assembly marks.
This façade's brick is Flemish bond, its Venetian windows and sandstone quoins are all of similar style to 52, Vale Street (Grove Place).
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