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
26900
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/08/2002
Date of Amendment
27/08/2002
Name of Property
Hendy
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf
Town
Locality
Benllech
Easting
251028
Northing
384057
Street Side
W
Location
Set back from the W side of the A5025 N out of Benllech.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Early-mid C19 farmhouse which formed part of the Baron Hill Estate. Recorded in the Tithe Apportionment of the parish as being owned by R B W Bulkeley and tenanted by Edward Williams, farmer of over 47 acres(19.4 hectares); by 1851 the tenancy was taken over by Griffith Jones.
Exterior
Linear range comprising farmhouse, lofted stable and cowhouse range. Two storey, 2-window estate built farmhouse, built of rubble masonry, the principal range snecked, with massive stones as quoins. Roof of small slates with stone copings and rectangular dressed stone gable stacks; that to L rendered. Openings are offset to R, the doorway flanked by 4-pane sash windows, similar 1st floor windows are set directly under the eaves. Windows have slate sills and ground floor openings have large stone lintels.
Set at a lower level to the R of the house is a rubble built lofted stable, the external flight of stone steps up to the loft run alongside the garden wall; the ground floor doorway to R has a timber lintel.
Abutting the R gable is a linear cowhouse range comprising 2 x 2-unit rubble built, limewashed cowhouses, that to R at a lower level; each has a roof of small slates with stone copings.
Interior
The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey; cowhouse is said, by owner to have the date 1848 scratched into the torching.
Reason for designation
Included as a good C19 estate built farmhouse which forms a coherent group with the adjacent agricultural ranges.
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