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
5443
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
05/02/1952
Date of Amendment
12/03/2003
Name of Property
Penhwnllys Plas
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llanddona
Town
Locality
Llaniestyn
Easting
259705
Northing
380719
Street Side
Location
Set back, along a trackway, from the N side of the 'middle' road between Llanddona and Llangoed; the track leads N off a right angled corner in the road.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably C17 with alterations and additions, including modern restorations. Recorded in the Tithe Apportionment of the parish, 1849, as a substantial holding of over 100 acres(4 hectares), owned by the Marquis of Anglesey and farmed by John Williams.
Exterior
Two storey farmhouse with service wing to rear and single storey additions to either end. Built of roughly coursed rubble masonry; slate roof with gable dormers along main range and a flat roofed dormer in the service wing. Square gable stacks with capping, large stack to L; small rendered stack to service wing. Three window range with openings offset to R; modern doorway in rendered single pitch roofed porch. Windows are modern timber casements, the flanking ground floor windows have relieving arches over, 1st floor windows in gable dormers. At the R gable there are blocked windows which retain the original mullions.
Interior
The house now has a central passage plan, the central enclosed timber staircase with stick balusters to a plain rail. The ground floor sitting room to L retains chamfered hewn beams and joists and the inglenook has a massive stone bressumer on an iron lintel. The other ground floor room, to R, has a beaded boarded ceiling, similar boarding is also found in the bedrooms and the 1st floor rooms have exposed pegged trusses, the walls below the collars of wattle and daub.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwithstanding alterations, as a C17 farmhouse which retains many noteworthy features including some original mullioned windows and many interior features.
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