Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Red Hill
Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Red Hill, Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 23 September 1950.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 23 September 1950
- Locality
- Red Hill
- Community
- Beaumaris
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26154, -4.11214
- Cadw reference
- 5575
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 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 · 94 Beaumaris (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
Reached by private drive on the S side of the B5109 approximately 1.5km W of Beaumaris town centre.
History
An C18 house built by the Sparrow family, minor landowners in Beaumaris, but with earlier origins. By 1850 it had become a ladies boarding school and was uninhabited in the 1930s.
Exterior
A Georgian house of 2 storeys and attic, of rendered rubble and slate roof. The symmetrical front has a 3-light bay window at either end and 3 windows between, all of which are sashes, with small-panes to the first floor windows. Three hipped dormers have horizontal-sliding sashes and glazing bars. The central 6-panel door (the top 4 of which are glazed) is within a finely moulded doorcase, with architrave, fluted pilasters and pediment (shown removed in a 1940s photograph but now restored). In place of an entablature is an unusual void between capitals and pediment.
Interior
The main stairs forms a quarter-spiral and has a Vitruvian scroll to the tread ends. The landing has a shouldered architrave. In the upper front room are fluted pilasters and and dentilled cornice. Rooms have 6-panel doors. The upper flights of the back stairs have slender turned balusters of early C18 type.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* for its special architectural interest as a fine small Georgian country house which has retained its character.
Nearby in the register
- Gateway to rear yard at Red HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- Dam and drive across Nant Meigan on Baron Hill estateWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Turret Lodge (pair of lodges)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Ice house at Baron HillNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.