Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ardwyn
Bodedern, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodedern, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 4 March 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 March 1998
- Locality
- Bodedern
- Town
- Bodedern
- Community
- Bodedern
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.29339, -4.50134
- Cadw reference
- 19482
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (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
Located near the centre of Bodedern, on a small road running between London Road and Garden Lane. Set back from the road behind a low stone wall with railings; dressed stone gateposts with pyramidal heads.
History
Built in the mid C19 (not shown on Tithe Map of 1848). Ardwyn was used as a ladies college in the late C19. Now a private house.
Exterior
A two storey, 3 window range, symmetrically planned around a central entrance, with domestic wing to rear. Rubble walls laid to courses, pitched roof with thin slate covering, rectangular stone stacks to either gable end. Central door with rectangular fanlight. Windows are 16-pane hornless sashes. All openings have rendered architraves, painted.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved example of a substantial mid C19 village house of vernacular character.
Nearby in the register
- Soar Chapel and chapel houseReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St. EdeyrnReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Police Station (Youth Association premises)Civilunder 1 mi
- Bodedern Early Christian CemeteryCemeteryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.