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
5688
Building Number
19
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
23/09/1950
Date of Amendment
13/07/2005
Name of Property
The Old Post
Address
19 Wexham Street
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Beaumaris
Town
Beaumaris
Locality
Beaumaris
Easting
260281
Northing
376266
Street Side
S
Location
Fronting the street in a block of buildings on the W side of the junction with Stanley Street.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
An C18 house, used as a posting house until c1833, after which the post was no longer carried to Holyhead via Wexham Street. The house is shown on the 1829 town plan with a rear wing and had probably only recently been altered to its present Georgian front. The rear wing was later extended, as shown on the 1889 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A 1½-storey house of whitened pebble dashed walls, steep slate roof, small roughcast stack to the L and larger roughcast stack to the R where the ridge line rises. Openings are offset to the L of centre. The central entrance has a replacement fielded-panel door in a doorcase with pediment, flanked by 12-pane hornless sash windows. A central attic gable has a small sash in a bullseye window, flanked by 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows in raked dormers. In the R gable end, on the L side, is a 16-pane hornless sash window in the lower storey and an attic casement window.
The rear is rendered. It has a central small-pane Gothic stair window, an inserted glazed door to the R, below a gabled dormer with replacement casement window. On the L side is a 2½-storey rear wing, mostly with enlarged or replacement windows, which has a 1-storey flat-roofed projection against the gable end.
Interior
The plan of the house belongs to the early C19 alterations. A central hall a stair with quarter turn, which has plain balusters and turned newel. The rooms to the R and L both retain original stop-chamfered cross beams. The reveal of the window in the R-hand room has a panelled cupboard door, probably giving access to a former posting box.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved C18 house of simple Georgian character, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Wexham Street.
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