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
5742
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
08/01/1988  
Date of Amendment
04/03/1998  
Name of Property
Old Police Station (Youth Association premises)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey  
Community
Bodedern  
Town
Bodedern  
Locality
Bodedern  
Easting
233346  
Northing
380469  
Street Side
N  
Location
Reached along a narrow lane immediately W of the Chuch of St Ederyn; the Police Station backs on to N side of the churchyard and is set into the slope with high wall attached to right.  

Description


Broad Class
Civil  
Period
 

History
Built c. 1800. Shown on the Tithe of 1848. Remodelled 1864 for use as Police Station and Lock-up. Sold as store in 1898 and conveyed to Trustees of Young Men's Institute in 1941.  

Exterior
Late Georgian style. Two storey and basement, 3 window front. Hipped slate roof with later brick stack to left eaves. Greensand facings, pale freestone dressings, rubbed red brick treatment to eaves and lintels; plinth course. Central sash window over inserted boarded door up steps; outer openings blocked except to ground floor with square barred opening over recessed gaol door. Rear elevation with central (cut-down stack), sash windows and second square barred opening to lock-ups. Outside stone staircase reached through opening in boundary wall to right.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 building of special interest for its adaption as a police station, and which forms part of a group with the church.  

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