Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boat-house at Craig-y-Don
Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Glyn Garth, Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 19 October 1988.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 19 October 1988
- Locality
- Glyn Garth
- Community
- Cwm Cadnant
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23568, -4.14892
- Cadw reference
- 5747
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 1896 map "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 106 Bangor (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 SE side of the A545 Beaumaris Road. The boat-house is located at the foreshore of the Menai Straits to SW of the coach-house and stables.
History
Early to mid C19 (contemporary with the coach house and stables and rebuilding of the house).
Exterior
Two-storey rubble square boat house built up on raised platform with battered sides down to the water. Hipped slate roof with cresting and wide boarded eaves; Penmon stone dressings to the main openings. The NE side has boarded double doors with cambered head, opening onto a slipway beside which are steps down to the water. The opening above the broad doorway is louvred as are all those on the 2 ‘window’ SE side and 1 ‘window’ NW side.
Reason for designation
Group value with Craig-y-Don, the Lodge and the Coachhouse.
Nearby in the register
- Coachhouse at Craig-y-DonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Craig-y-DonDomesticunder 1 mi
- Milestone below Min y TwrTransportunder 1 mi
- Garden house at Min y TwrDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.