Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wellhouse, Gronant
Llanfachraeth, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
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
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (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.