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
24814
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/02/2001
Date of Amendment
28/09/2001
Name of Property
Siop Soar
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanfaethlu
Town
Holyhead
Locality
Llanfaethlu
Easting
231971
Northing
386419
Street Side
E
Location
Set alongside the E side of the A5025, at a right angle bend on the approach to the village of Llanfaethlu; c1km SE of the Church of St Maethlu.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
A late C18 or early C19 linear range of originally 3 cottages, adjoining the Public House; some later alterations and additions. The 1841 census returns for the parish lists Elinor Jones as the publican, her husband William is recorded as being a joiner; also listed are Owen Lewis, shoemaker, and his family, and William Thomas, also a shoesmith.
Exterior
Cottage row to right comprises long 3-window range (right hand bay slightly set back), mostly 4-pane sashes with shaped, eared and shouldered architraves; first floor windows set directly under the eaves. Wider window to left, possibly a former shop window. Doorways in left and centre in flat-roofed porches - right hand door in rendered architrave.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a distinctive terraced row retaining good C19 vernacular character notwithstanding some alteration to detail.
Group Description
Black Lion Inn and attached residence. Linear range comprising public house to left and terraced cottage row (now a single house) to the right; 2-storeyed. Render over rubble with slate roof, grouted to right hand section; end wall and axial stacks, marking original dwelling divisions.
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