Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Museum of Childhood
Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 20 February 1978.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 20 February 1978
- Locality
- Beaumaris
- Town
- Beaumaris
- Community
- Beaumaris
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26383, -4.09070
- Cadw reference
- 5582
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
At the E end of Castle Street, SW of Beaumaris Castle.
History
Probably built in the late C18 and shown as a house on the 1829 town plan. A rear wing has subsequently become a separate dwelling known as Tyn y Gongl Cottage. The house was converted to a museum in the 1970s, when new shutters were installed, leaving the pintles of the previous shutters.
Exterior
A 2-storey 4-bay former house of scribed roughcast painted cream, slate roof, and stacks to the L gable end to the rear range. The entrance is in the 2nd bay and has a shallow open porch with cast-iron columns and pediment, to a fielded-panel door in a painted freestone surround. Windows are 4-pane horned sashes with modern shutters. A cast-iron street sign is on the L side in the upper storey. In the L gable end, facing Mona Place, is a replacement glazed door to the R, and a bay window of 5x2 panes to a former shop on the L side. A short rear wing has a 4-pane sash window in the upper storey. Set forward further L, within the same range as the adjoining Tyn-y-Gongl Cottage, is a boarded door to a through passage, and a 9-pane upper-storey window.
The rear faces a narrow courtyard. It has a central 12-pane sash window lighting the stairs. To its L is a 2-storey projection with, facing the courtyard, replacement window in the lower storey and 16-pane sash window in the upper storey. To the R of the stair window is a narrow gabled projection with wooden shutter in the attic and horizontal-sliding sash window in the lower storey. To its R is the rear wing and through passage facing Mona Place, which has a 12-pane hornless sash window in the upper storey.
Interior
Converted to museum use but retaining its general room plan with entrance hall and main rooms to the R and L, and panel doors. Behind the entrance hall is a straight stair with winders at the top and bottom, with turned newel and plain balusters.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special architectural interest as a Georgian house retaining definite C19 character, and for its contribution to the setting of Beaumaris Castle and to the historical integrity of Castle Street.
Nearby in the register
- Tyn y Gongl Cottage, including attached boundary wall and gate piersDomesticunder 1 mi
- House and Castle BakeryCommercialunder 1 mi
- House and BagitallDomesticunder 1 mi
- House and Spinning Wheel Tea RoomsDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.