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.
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Location
Fronting the street in the block of buildings on the W side of Chapel Street.
History
A Baron Hill estate house built as one of a pair with No 10 in the mid C19, replacing the warehouses shown here on the 1829 town plan, and shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A late-Georgian style 3-storey 3-bay house of whitened scribed roughcast, slate roof and shared roughcast end stacks. The entrance in the R-hand bay has plain pilasters and pediment. It has replacement panelled door and overlight. Twelve-pane sash windows are in moulded architraves. In the lower storey they are horned sashes, in the middle and upper storeys hornless. The upper storey has a blind central window and gabled outer windows.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as one of a pair of mid C19 town houses of definite quality and character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Townsend.
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