Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary Walls to Hendy and Ty Nant
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 26 June 1998
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.76465, -4.78775
- Cadw reference
- 20057
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Enclosing walls to paired rear gardens and narrow front gardens to Hendy and Ty Nant.
History
Garden walls to semi-detached pair of farmhouses built c1870-5 by the 3rd Baron Newborough.
Exterior
Walls, rubble stone with stepped copings of squared stone, enclosing 2 long rectangular rear gardens and 2 narrow front gardens. Double earth closet with gabled slate roof spans dividing wall between rear gardens, close to back wall of houses. 2 doors to E.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Hendy and Ty Nant, part of a pattern of walled enclosures which is a characteristic feature of the island.
Nearby in the register
- Hendy and Ty NantDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Enclosure to Newborough CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Newborough CrossReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ruin of Abbey of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.