Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Glan Hafren
Tref Alaw, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llantrisant, Holyhead, Tref Alaw, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 5 April 1971.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 April 1971
- Locality
- Llantrisant
- Town
- Holyhead
- Community
- Tref Alaw
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.33127, -4.48230
- Cadw reference
- 5315
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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 at right angles to a country road leading between the villages of Llantrisant and Llanddeusant and close to Pont Hafren, spanning the Afon Alaw; located c800m SSE of the church at Llanddeusant.
History
C18 vernacular house. The house is not annotated on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llantrisant, 1843, but is recorded in both the Tithe Schedule and also the Census Returns for the parish, 1841. The house was owned by Edward Edmund Meyrick Esq, a small holding of just 1 acre (0.41 hectares) housing William Williams, blacksmith, and his family.
Exterior
C18 vernacular house; a 2 storey, 2 window range with single storey kitchen wing set at right angles to rear (N) with lean-to porch in the angle. Built of rubble masonry, gray grit rendered. Modern slate roof with rendered gable stacks to house. The entrance elevation faces the smithy to the E; central entrance in a shallow gabled porch, flanking 4-pane horned sash windows, first floor windows in gabled half dormers. Rear elevation with single 4-pane sash window to R (S) end; single storey kitchen wing and porch with modern casements.
Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C18 house which, notwithstanding some modernisation, retains its vernacular character. Glan Hafren forms a group with the adjacent smithy and roadbridge, Pont Hafren.
Nearby in the register
- Former Smithy at Glan HafrenIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Pont HafrenTransportunder 1 mi
- Melyn HywelIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Church of St Afran, St Ieuan and St SannanReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.