the Conservative Club) is a Grade II listed building of medieval origin and a former 17th-century town house. It was rebuilt in 1613 using red sandstone from the castle and became home to the castle Constable. The building has two storeys with attics and four large windows on each floor. In 1963 it became a banqueting hall owned by Rees Jones, who used to trade at the village hall in Llanfair. It became the Conservative Club in 1977, and having been slightly altered, now offers all-round function facilities. Other areas The Spread Eagle recalls the coat-of-arms of the Goodwin family. Formerly an inn, records show it traded only from 1792 to 1915, after which it became a temperance hotel, then a retail shop. Rose Cottage Rose Cottage is a privately owned residence and a Grade II* listed building on the corner of Rhos Street and Haulfryn. It is listed as an "exceptional survival of a medieval cruck-framed hall-house of relatively low status, retaining its plan-form, character and detail". Scott House Situated in the Corwen Road just past Ruthin Castle, Scott House was built 1933 to house the nursing staff of Duff House Sanatorium, which acquired Ruthin Castle and 475 acres (192 ha) of land for their private clinic in April 1923. The Grade II listed building set in landscaped grounds was later divided into flats. The Town Hall Ruthin Town Hall is located in Market Street. It was designed by J. W. Poundley and D. Walker in the High Victorian Gothic style and completed in 1865. Notable people See :Category:People from Ruthin Ida de Grey (1368 in Ruthin Castle – 1426), a Cambro-Norman noblewoman Sir Thomas Exmewe (ca.1454–1529), Lord Mayor of London 1517–18 Gabriel Goodman (1528–1601), Dean of Westminster, re-founded Ruthin School Godfrey Goodman (1582/3 – 1656), Anglican Bishop of Gloucester. Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802), politician and barrister, went to Ruthin School. Joseph Ablett (1773–1848), philanthropist, purchased Llanbedr Hall in Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd Dorothea Eliza Smith (1804–1864), a botanical artist noted for painting South American fruit. Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873 in Ruthin Castle – 1943), society beauty, wife of Prince Hans Heinrich XV von Hochberg Wynn Edwards (1842–1900), American farmer and politician Stanley J. Weyman (1855–1928), English novelist, lived in Ruthin for 33 years and died there. Sir Henry Haydn Jones MP (1863–1950), politician, slate quarry owner, and owner of the Talyllyn Railway Władysław Raczkiewicz (1885–1947), the