Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Agricultural range at Rectory
Rhosybol, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 21 February 2001
- Locality
- Llandyfrydog
- Community
- Rhosybol
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.34184, -4.33597
- Cadw reference
- 24840
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
Set back, within private grounds, from the E side of Lon Leidr in the centre of the small hamlet of Llandyfrydog. The former rectory is c250m E of the Church of St Dyfrydog, and the agricultural range lies directly SW of the rectory.
History
Mid C19 agricultural range comprising coach house with servants loft over, with a stable and cartshed attached. This range has a long cowhouse attached to the corner, with a 2-unit pigsty in the angle to rear (N) and a cobbled yard in the angle to the SE.
Exterior
Long agricultural range with offset alignment; To the R (E) end is lofted coach house, with a single storey stable and cartshed attached to the L. A single storey cowhouse is attached to the left (SW) near side corner of the stable, with a 2-unit pigsty built in NE angle to the rear. Cobbled yard to SE angle, enclosed by a low stone wall. Built of rubble masonry with a mix of dressed stone, slate and rendered lintels; windows with slate sills. Slate roofs with tiled ridges and mix of slate and stone copings; small brick stack to E gable. The lofted coach house has openings in the E gable; a wide boarded double door to R and 16-pane casement window to L; similar window to loft in gable apex. The stable, facing S, has a central boarded door with flanking 4-pane casement windows, which opens onto an enclosed cobbled yard; the rear elevation has a wide boarded door. The cowhouse range to the L (W) also has the principal elevation facing SW; two 6-pane casements to R, a stable door to L and an enlarged opening to the far left, partially blocked and with modern casement windows. The rear elevation has a single stable door at the far R (W) end. There is a boarded pitching hole opening onto the cobbled yard, to the R side of the E gable wall.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good mid C19 farm range, which retains much vernacular character, and which has significant group value with the adjacent Rectory, which it was built to serve.
Nearby in the register
- RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ty MawrDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard wall at Church of St TyfrydogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St TyfrydogReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.