Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Viewing platform and colonnade on the S side of Baron Hill
Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Baron Hill, Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 13 July 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 13 July 2005
- Locality
- Baron Hill
- Town
- Beaumaris
- Community
- Beaumaris
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26594, -4.10427
- Cadw reference
- 84796
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
On the S side of the house, immediately N of the bridge over the B5109.
History
Probably built in the early 1840s when a new main drive S of the house was created, and first shown on an estate plan of 1861. The steps provided access from the drive to the park to the E. Known locally as the pulpit.
Exterior
A freestone semi-circular colonnade with Tuscan columns and entablature. On the outer sides are doorways leading to stone steps, which join and continue upwards beneath a broad viewing platform. At the top of the steps are freestone parapets. The platform retains a freestone parapet to the sides but the balustrade around the front has been lost. Stone steps, the full width of the platform, lead up to the main drive.
Reason for designation
Listed, notwthstanding some loss of parapet, for its special interest as a garden feature of definite architectural quality and character, and as an integral component of Baron Hill and its gardens.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over B5109 on drive to Baron HillTransportunder 1 mi
- Ysgol Gynradd Beaumaris Primary School including attached range to rightEducationunder 1 mi
- Ice house at Baron HillNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Baron HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.