Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gateposts and wall, Uwch y don
Llanfaethlu, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llanfwrog, Holyhead, Llanfaethlu, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 16 February 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 16 February 2001
- Locality
- Llanfwrog
- Town
- Holyhead
- Community
- Llanfaethlu
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33547, -4.55004
- Cadw reference
- 24797
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 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
At the NW side of the country road between the villages of Llanfwrog and Llanfaethlu, the front wall of the grounds of the house at Uwch y don; c1.25km NNE of the Church of St Mwrog.
History
Probably contemporary with the house at Uwch y don, built c1894.
Exterior
Square gateposts flanking the driveway to Uwch y don. Built of rubble masonry with shaped caps surmounted by ball finials. To either side a low rubble wall extends across the front of the garden; built of rubble masonry with a roughly embattled top.
Reason for designation
Included as Arts and Crafts style gateposts which form an integral part of the setting for the house at Uwch y don.
Nearby in the register
- Uwch y donDomesticunder 1 mi
- PenralltDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cartshed-granary range, Plas y GlynAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Plas y GlynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.