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
5596
Building Number
2
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
House and Spinning Wheel Tea Rooms
Address
2 Castle Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Beaumaris
Locality
Beaumaris
Easting
260646
Northing
376162
Street Side
Location
Fronting the road at the E end of Castle Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Probably built in the early C19, and forming a pair with No 4, among the earliest brick houses in Beaumaris. It is shown on the 1829 town plan. It was still a house in 1937 but has subsequently been converted to tea rooms and part of its interior incorporated into No 4.
Exterior
A late Georgian 3-storey 3-bay former house of brick with hipped slate roof and roughcast stacks. The central entrance has a segmental arch with fielded-panel door, half-glazed side panels and 3-pane overlight beneath a blind plastered tympanum. Hornless sash windows have mostly original flat arches of rubbed brick, and sill bands in the middle and upper storeys. To the R and L are 15-pane tripartite hornless sashes, under an altered shallow cambered head to the R. The middle storey has tripartite 12-pane hornless sashes to the R and L, and 12-pane sash in the centre. The R-hand has an altered, shallow cambered head (shown in a photograph of 1937), the central an original cambered head. The upper storey has shorter 6-pane sash windows.
The 2-bay R side wall has tripartite 15-pane sashes in the lower storey, in the middle storey a 12-pane sash window to the L and 12-pane tripartite sash window to the R, and 6-pane sashes in the upper storey. Set back to the R is a rear hipped 2-storey lean-to which, facing the road, has a 12-pane tripartite window to the L and fielded-panel door to the R under a replacement cement head. A replacement sash window of 2 unequal panes is in the upper storey. The 2-window rear has 6-pane upper storey windows, central segmental-headed small-pane stair light, and flat-roof projection against the lower storey.
Interior
The building retains its basic double-depth plan of central entrance hall with rooms R and L. Windows have panelled reveals to the R side but the interior is otherwise altered and the room on the L side has been incorporated into No 4.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved late-Georgian house, and for its contribution to the setting of Beaumaris Castle and to the historical integrity of Castle Street.
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