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Designated  

20/04/1998  

 

Victoria Cottages  

1 Brynsiencyn Road (A4080)  

Isle of Anglesey  

Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll  

 

Aberbraint  

252433  

370928  

W  

Set at an angle to a junction along the A4080 Brynsiencyn Road, c.1km SW of the Llanfairpwll Toll House.  

Education  

 

Built c1833 as a school house, on land provided by the Rev. Henry Rowlands of Plas Gwyn and with a donation of £80 from the Duchess of Kent on her visit to the Beaumaris Eisteddfod in 1832. Named after Queen Victoria who planted a tree in the grounds during one of her visits to the Island. Shown on the Tithe Map of 1844. In 1851 the school was merged with the Plas Newydd Charity School and then flourished until the establishment of a National School at Llanfairpwll in 1871, after which it was closed in 1872. The building was then converted into three cottages and has subsequently been altered again to form the two cottages of its present layout. Now owned by the Plas Newydd estate and probably re-modelled by the estate since it has the casement windows and octagonal stacks characteristic of C19 work on the estate. The Plas Newydd Estate was one of the largest estates on Anglesey, passing to the Bagenal family in 1553 and through marriage to the Bayly family in the C18. By 1780 the Bayly family owned a total of 100,000 acres (40,500 ha) in North Wales, Ireland, Devon and Cornwall, including much mineral wealth including the copper mine at Parys Mountain. The Plas Newydd estate passed to Henry William, Lord Uxbridge's eldest son, in 1812. Henry was created 1st Marquess of Anglesey in 1815, but chiefly lived at Beaudesert in Staffordshire. A number of improvements to the buildings of the estate followed the completion of the main house at Plas Newydd in the early C19. The estate is recorded as being 9,620 acres (3,896 ha) in size in 1873, including scattered lands and land around the mansion of Plas Newydd.  

 

 

In its overall form, the building retains its early C19 character, its massing then exploited to picturesque effect in the later C19 remodelling, to form a well-detailed group of estate cottages.  

Nos 1 and 2 Victoria Cottages Single storey symmetrically planned house, front entrance elevation of 1-2-1 bays; central range with attics, and wide hipped roofed wings advanced either end. Built from rubble with limestone dressings and plinth; hipped roof of large slates laid to diminishing courses with projecting eaves and verges. Dressed octagonal stone stacks, three to either end of central part. Entrance with central gabled porch with 4-centred voussoir arch; lower storey has paired 8-pane sash windows with deep stone lintels and slate sills, attic storey has gabled dormers breaking the eaves line with 2-light, 6-pane side hung casements. Hipped roofed wings have 2-light, 8-pane sash windows and entrance in return elevation in flat-roofed porch with 4-centred voussoir arch. To rear are two lean-to former kitchens.