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
19729
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/04/1998
Date of Amendment
23/04/1998
Name of Property
Boathouse of Plas Newydd
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanddaniel Fab
Town
Locality
Plas Newydd Estate
Easting
252107
Northing
369416
Street Side
Location
Located c100m S of Plas Newydd, alongside the small harbour for the Estate on the Menai Strait.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built between 1817 and 1822, following the construction of the sea wall and harbour c1796. Built originally with 5 doors and 1 window to front, 3 doors have been partly blocked to form windows to the central room. Built as the boathouse for Plas Newydd after the estate had passed to Henry William, Lord Uxbridge's eldest son; Henry was created 1st Marquess of Anglesey in 1815, and his descendants inherited both estate and title. A number of improvements to the buildings of the estate followed the completion of the main house at Plas Newydd in the early C19; the erection of the boathouse is contemporary with these improvements. Leased to the H.M.S. Conway Training School in 1947. Presently used by the Conway Centre.
Exterior
Rectangular plan with 3 doorways and 3 windows to E front, single storey with loft over part. Hipped roof of large slates laid to diminishing courses with wood eaves soffit. Walls of squared stone to courses front, side and rear walls rubble, cambered voussoir heads to central openings, flat heads to openings either end. Mullioned window to sail room on R. Octagonal brick chimneys either end on rear wall.
Interior
Divided into 2 bay central room with room either side, tongued and grooved panelling and on underside of roof. Workshop to left with large fireplace and wood steps to rope loft, which extends over part of central room. Sail store to right with small cast-iron fireplace. Internal doors to sail room and workshop are 6-panel. Sawn and bolted queen post with struts roof trusses.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Plas Newydd house, the sea wall and harbour.
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