Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Fitting, Boiler and Smithy Shops
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 17 October 1986
- Locality
- Marine Yard, Holyhead Docks
- Community
- Holyhead
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.31249, -4.63004
- Cadw reference
- 5734
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite Water Street. Irregular group of 3 parallel ranges to rear (NW) of office and stores building, the Smithy overlooks Victoria Road.
History
Part of a large group of marine workshop buildings, Fitting Shop may incorporate part of pre-1850 building on site, and was rebuilt circa 1880, at same time as Smithy Shops (which included Coppersmiths’, Brass Foundry, and Iron Foundry). Boiler Shop (or Erecting Shop) was contrived between these circa 1890.
Exterior
To SE, Fitting Shop 2 storey, 2 window gabled end with clock at apex. Green rubble facings with pale dressings, 4-pane sashes under segmental voussoir heads; gabled porch with brackets to bargeboards over doorway. Modern corrugated sheeting and projecting eaves to roof. Short return flanks with paired windows and upper floor dormer treatment. Long 1-storey range to rear with fixed lights under arched heads, 2-storey inner (NE) end.
Tall refronted centre gable with horizontal glazing over modern shuttered entrance to later Boiler Shop. Brick flank elevations with arched clerestorey windows, rubble pilasters, modern corrugated roof.
Lower rubble gable of Smithy to left with single arched window, modern corrugated roof.
Main flanking Victoria Road with centre gablet blocked oculus and irregular dark voussoirs to ground floor arches generally with fixed lights.
Interior
Interiors interconnected. Boiler Shop has brick pilastered walls with corbelled out steel girders to support modern travelling crane. Open work timber roofs.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of a (probably) unique group of purpose-built marine service buildings at a major British ferry port.
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Office and Stores BuildingCommercialunder 1 mi
- Store, Old Boiler Shop & Sawmill buildings at Marine YardCommercialunder 1 mi
- Lower Churchyard Walls and GatewayReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Roman Wall Surrounding St Cybi's ChurchyardFortunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.