Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
18566
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/07/1997
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Y Craig Wen
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Menai Bridge
Town
Menai Bridge
Locality
Easting
255838
Northing
372407
Street Side
W
Location
Set back from the road in an elevated position overlooking the Menai Strait, N of the town centre and reached by a private driveway.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Townhouse of c1830-40, built during the early growth of the town following the building of Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.
Exterior
A 2 storey, T-plan house; principal elevation a 3 window range with slightly advanced central bay to front. Walls and stacks to either side of central bay rendered and painted, slate roof with projecting verges. Entrance is in right hand gable return, in an unusually finely detailed trellis-work porch with turned finials, fretted barge boards and lozenge-patterned lattice work in Chinoiserie style. This is flanked by 12-pane hornless sashes to the right, blind window spaces to the left. Main elevation articulated by advanced gabled central bay, and 3 lesser gables over other bays. The right hand of these has 12-pane sash window to each floor; central and left hand bays each have small paned sashes in canted bay window to ground floor, tripartite sash window above, stressed by hood mould in central bay only.
Interior
Original open string dog leg staircase with stick balusters, some fireplaces remain and one pair of panelled window shutters.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved early C19 villa retaining some fine detail including the porch. A good example of the villa style which was a characteristic of Menai Bridge's development as a town following the building of the Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.
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