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Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 18 July 1997.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 18 July 1997
- Town
- Menai Bridge
- Community
- Menai Bridge
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22908, -4.16112
- Cadw reference
- 18566
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road in an elevated position overlooking the Menai Strait, N of the town centre and reached by a private driveway.
History
Townhouse of c1830-40, built during the early growth of the town following the building of Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.
Exterior
A 2 storey, T-plan house; principal elevation a 3 window range with slightly advanced central bay to front. Walls and stacks to either side of central bay rendered and painted, slate roof with projecting verges. Entrance is in right hand gable return, in an unusually finely detailed trellis-work porch with turned finials, fretted barge boards and lozenge-patterned lattice work in Chinoiserie style. This is flanked by 12-pane hornless sashes to the right, blind window spaces to the left. Main elevation articulated by advanced gabled central bay, and 3 lesser gables over other bays. The right hand of these has 12-pane sash window to each floor; central and left hand bays each have small paned sashes in canted bay window to ground floor, tripartite sash window above, stressed by hood mould in central bay only.
Interior
Original open string dog leg staircase with stick balusters, some fireplaces remain and one pair of panelled window shutters.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved early C19 villa retaining some fine detail including the porch. A good example of the villa style which was a characteristic of Menai Bridge's development as a town following the building of the Menai Suspension Bridge in 1826.
Nearby in the register
- Bron MenaiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Menai VilleDomesticunder 1 mi
- MilestoneTransportunder 1 mi
- Hawthorn HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.