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
5575
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
Red Hill
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Locality
Red Hill
Easting
259214
Northing
375920
Street Side
Location
Reached by private drive on the S side of the B5109 approximately 1.5km W of Beaumaris town centre.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An C18 house built by the Sparrow family, minor landowners in Beaumaris, but with earlier origins. By 1850 it had become a ladies boarding school and was uninhabited in the 1930s.
Exterior
A Georgian house of 2 storeys and attic, of rendered rubble and slate roof. The symmetrical front has a 3-light bay window at either end and 3 windows between, all of which are sashes, with small-panes to the first floor windows. Three hipped dormers have horizontal-sliding sashes and glazing bars. The central 6-panel door (the top 4 of which are glazed) is within a finely moulded doorcase, with architrave, fluted pilasters and pediment (shown removed in a 1940s photograph but now restored). In place of an entablature is an unusual void between capitals and pediment.
Interior
The main stairs forms a quarter-spiral and has a Vitruvian scroll to the tread ends. The landing has a shouldered architrave. In the upper front room are fluted pilasters and and dentilled cornice. Rooms have 6-panel doors. The upper flights of the back stairs have slender turned balusters of early C18 type.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* for its special architectural interest as a fine small Georgian country house which has retained its character.
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