Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wellhouse by Hen Ysgol
Cwm Cadnant, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 28 May 2003
- Locality
- Llandegfan
- Community
- Cwm Cadnant
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24446, -4.14954
- Cadw reference
- 81146
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 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set alongside the N side of Bro Llewellyn at the N end of the village of Llangegfan; directly to SE of Hen Ysgol.
History
Late C19 wellhouse, dated by the inscription upon the exposed face of the tie beam which bears the date : A D 1899.
Exterior
Late C19 wellhouse in Arts and Crafts style. Raking walls of snecked masonry with large stones as quoins, slate wall plates and slate roof with advanced eaves and verges on an exposed framework of pegged timbers. An inscription is carved in the blades of the exposed trusses which reads: PARCHING SUMMER / HATH NO WARRANT / TO CONSUME THIS / CRYSTAL WELL, and across the tie beam: In loving memory of Richard Reynolds Rathbone / for the use of the parishioners of Llandegfan / This well and well house were given by his daughter / A D 1899.
To the rear of the wellhouse is a circular well of brick with modern capping.
Interior
There is a shallow stone trough along the L inner wall.
Reason for designation
Listed as a late C19 wellhouse, a robust essay in the Arts and Crafts style strong on the island in the late C19 and early C20.
Nearby in the register
- Hen Ysgol and schoolhouseEducationunder 1 mi
- Melin LlandegfanIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Llandegfan Parish HallRecreationalunder 1 mi
- Pen-y-Maen Standing StoneStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.