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
24431
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/11/2000
Date of Amendment
27/11/2000
Name of Property
Menai
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Cylch-y-Garn
Town
Locality
Rhydwyn
Easting
231546
Northing
388933
Street Side
Location
Located at the SW side of the main road in the centre of the village of Rhydwyn.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
C19 terraced house; datestone offset to L of doorway reads: AD 1869.
Exterior
Menai is the larger of the 2 dwellings, located at the R (NW) end of the row. A 3-window range with central doorway; a modern boarded door under a rectangular fanlight. Above and offset to the L of the door is a stone bearing proud lettering and the date: AD 1869. Windows are 16-pane horned sashes. The R (NW) return has smaller sash windows to the rear and there is a single-storey gabled wing to the rear, with gable stack.
Interior
Interior not inspected at time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved mid C19 terraced house which, with the adjacent Menai Bach and Pen Bont, forms a good village vernacular group.
Group Description
Menai and Menai Bach
C19 pair of vernacular houses. Built of rubble masonry, the front face with roughly dressed local stone. Slate roof with narrow rectangular dressed stone stacks with capping to each gable and at junction of the two dwellings. Ground floor openings have shallow cambered voussoir heads with dripcourse. First floor windows are set directly under the eaves.
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