Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cae Hen
Cylch-y-Garn, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhydwyn, Cylch-y-Garn, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 27 November 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 27 November 2000
- Locality
- Rhydwyn
- Community
- Cylch-y-Garn
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.36671, -4.53221
- Cadw reference
- 24433
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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 · 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 at the S side of a junction in the road c40m S of the village of Rhydwyn.
History
Late C18 or early C19 cottage, originally a cottage and cowhouse, with cottage at N end. The central doorway to the cottage was blocked and the living accommodation extended into the original cowhouse, with the new entrance via the former cowhouse door to L of cottage; new cowhouse built to S end of range in late C19. Marked as a small rectangle on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llanrhuddlad, 1843. Cae Hen was owned by Edward Edmund Meyrick Esq and was a smallholding of just over 6 acres(2.4 hectares) farmed by Richard Hughes and his family.
Exterior
Single storey 2-unit cottage with brick built lean-to additions to rear (W) and R (N) end. Built of stone, roughcast rendered elevations. Roof of small old slates with brick coping. Rendered rectangular gable stacks, that to R (N) with dripstone and capping; a massive square stack denoting end of original cottage. Entrance elevation faces E, boarded door with rectangular fanlight offset to L with single window to L, 2 windows to R; all windows are 4-pane horned sashes. To the rear there are 2 similar windows to L end and a small sash window within a partially blocked doorway to the R. Lean-to kitchen addition offset to the R is brick built on boulder foundations and has a corrugated iron roof; a boarded door and fixed light in the N wall, modern top-hung casement window in the W wall. At the left end of the range is another brick built lean-to addition (privy) with corrugated iron roof and boarded door; there is a single pane casement in the N gable apex over. At the S end of the range (against the wall of the former cowhouse) is a low, rubblestone cowhouse with grouted slate roof; doorway at L end and widened doorway to R with inserted window to its L.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved small vernacular cottage, retaining its character in use of materials and in the arrangement of openings.
Nearby in the register
- Menai BachDomesticunder 1 mi
- MenaiDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen BontDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Stables, CarreglwydAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.