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
5346
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/09/1952
Date of Amendment
12/12/2002
Name of Property
Plas Bodafon
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Moelfre
Town
Moelfre
Locality
Penrhos Lligwy
Easting
247932
Northing
385379
Street Side
Location
In an isolated rural location and set back, along a private driveway, from the SE side of a country road leading NW from Mynydd Bodafon to the village of Brynrefail. Located c500m S of the Church of St Michael.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
The oldest part of the house is retained in the fabric at the L (N) of the range; a ground floor lintel inscribed with the initials and date: IW 1584 IR. Enlarged and remodelled in late C17-early C18 and further extended to the S in the 1920s. The house formed the estate centre for the Bodafon estate, owned and occupied in the mid C19 by Wm Mason Esq.
Exterior
Sub-medieval house, 2-storeys and attic, a 5-window range with single bay wing added to the S end. Built of rubble masonry, painted and rendered. Slate roof with crow stepped gable surmounted by a ball finial to each end (that to S is an early C20 copy). There are 3 stacks along the range; to the S end, marking the end of the C17 house, is a slender rendered rectangular stack; to its L (N) are 2 tall square ashlar stacks with dripstones and capping, set just to either side of the ridge. The entrance elevation faces W, the doorway offset to the S under a C20 Georgian style portico; irregular layout, comprising 3 wide bays to N with entrance offset towards S, and a narrower bay to its right. Southernmost bay beyond this is a 1920s addition windows mainly 4-pane sashes, but 16-pane sash to 1st floor right of doorway and fixed small-pane light in early doorway with lintel inscribed with the initials and date: IW 1584 IR; at the S end of the range is a slate datestone which reads: DWM - WLWM / 1925.
The rear elevation is rendered and colour washed: 5 bays with varied fenestration to 1st floor including 2 small-pane sashes to the left. Ground floor has mixture of 4-pane sashes and casement window; remains of late Victorian verandah with timber posts incorporated in C20 conservatory to right.
The S gable return has a small light fixed in the gable apex and a single ground floor 4-pane sash with doorway to the L (W); the N gable return has a single ground floor 12-pane hornless sash window, the 1st floor has timber mullioned window and there is a single small fixed light in the gable apex.
Interior
The oldest part of the house is to the N end and retains some chamfered beams and a massive chamfered bresummer. The late C17 portion of the house retains some beaded boarded ceilings and doors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a significant sub-medieval gentry house with some good early detail.
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