Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wellhouse, Gronant
Llanfachraeth, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfachraeth, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 19 December 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 December 2000
- Locality
- Llanfachraeth
- Town
- Holyhead
- Community
- Llanfachraeth
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33737, -4.51564
- Cadw reference
- 24477
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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 at the end of a long trackway leading off the NE side of the B5025, N of Llanfachraeth. The wellhouse is at the junction of the farmyard and house entrances.
History
Picturesque wellhouse, built 1817 for Robert and Jane Bulkeley of Gronant.
Exterior
Circular wellhouse building, rubble-built, with a low entrance in the E side. The roof is corbelled using flat stone slabs. Surmounting the roof is a simple gritstone finial with '1817' and 'B' over 'R' and 'J'.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early C19 wellhouse in picturesque style, prominently located at the entrance to the farmstead, and forming an important part of the farm group at Gronant.
Nearby in the register
- Watermill, GronantAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cartshed, GronantAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Hammels and hammel yard walls, GronantAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cornbarn range, GronantAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.