Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Walls to Cristin
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 26 June 1998.
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
- 52.75987, -4.78797
- Cadw reference
- 20064
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Garden walls to gardens in front and yards behind pair of houses at Cristin.
History
Garden walls to pair of semi-detached farmhouses built c1870-5 for the 3rd Baron Newborough, enclosing long front gardens and small rear yards with earth closets.
Exterior
Garden walls, rubble stone with squared stone capping, enclosing long front gardens with terrace wall in front of houses, narrowly enclosing sides and rear courtyards, and with dividing walls separating the two halves. In rear courts are 2 flat-roofed earth-closets with raised beds adjacent for composting.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with pair of houses at Cristin, part of a series of walled enclosures which is a distinctive feature of the island landscape.
Nearby in the register
- CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at CristinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walled Court at Plas Bach with attached field walls to SDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls to Old SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.