Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boston Well
Moelfre, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Penrhos Lligwy, Moelfre, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 7 February 2002.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 7 February 2002
- Locality
- Penrhos Lligwy
- Town
- Moelfre
- Community
- Moelfre
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.34934, -4.27612
- Cadw reference
- 26224
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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
Set back from the N side of a country road leading W of the A5025 towards the church at Penrhoslligwy; c0.5km ENE of the Church of St Michael.
History
Mid C19 well house, dated by the slate plaque over the door. Built for the Irby family, owners of the Boston Estate on which it stands.
Exterior
Single storey wellhouse built in castellated style to a square plan. The structure is built of roughly dressed limestone, coursed and squared. Now roofless, the building has pilaster buttresses to each corner and the top part of the wall is slightly advanced and has embattled coping. The entrance is in the N wall clasped between buttresses, a narrow doorway with dressed voussoirs to a shallow pointed head; above the door is a slate plaque which reads: SULPHUR WELL / "BOSTON" / 1864. There is a narrow ventilation slit in the rear wall.
Interior
The interior was once rendered, though much has now weathered away. To the rear is a stone slab seat or shelf.
Reason for designation
Listed as an unusual curative well in a strongly designed well-house of military Gothic character.
Nearby in the register
- Coed Newydd Boiling Mounds & Smelting HearthIron forgeunder 1 mi
- Church of St MichaelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bwlch-y-Dafarn Enclosed Hut GroupEnclosed hut circleunder 1 mi
- Plas BodafonDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.