Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Plas Bach
Rhoscolyn, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhoscolyn, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 3 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 June 1998
- Locality
- Rhoscolyn
- Community
- Rhoscolyn
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24896, -4.59767
- Cadw reference
- 19950
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 105 Carnarvon (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 within private grounds, at the side of a single track lane, directly opposite Plas and c120m SSW of the Church of St. Gwenfaen in Rhoscolyn.
History
C18 cottage; over the entrance are the initials and date H H 1783, H H being Hugh Hughes of Plas, Inspector General of Excise and Licenses in Dublin. The Plas estate became the property of Edmund Hope Verney, also owner of the Rhianfa estate in Llandegfan, Anglesey and one of the major landowners on the island in late C19. Under his ownership the estate was improved and Plas Bach had a loft installed (with window in right gable return) and new windows to front.
Exterior
Single storey croglofft cottage. Two window range with central doorway; openings offset to the right; later window in apex of right gable return. Built of rubble masonry with slightly recessed openings, windows with stone sills; modern slate roof with projecting eaves and gable stack at left end built of rubble with dripstones. Windows are 4-pane sashes and doorway with modern door.
Interior
A 2-roomed cottage, the larger room to the left entered by the central doorway. Said, in Royal Commission notes, to contain some original rough-hewn ceiling beams and parts of the paved floor.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of a C18 croglofft cottage, still retaining vernacular character; forms a group with the adjacent Plas.
Nearby in the register
- PlasDomesticunder 1 mi
- Lifeboat memorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Church of St. GwenfaenReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ffynnon GwenfaiWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.