Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary Wall to Cybi Building, Holyhead High School
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 13 March 2009.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Education
- Date of designation
- 13 March 2009
- Town
- Holyhead
- Community
- Holyhead
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.31063, -4.64021
- Cadw reference
- 87588
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (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
Defines the boundary of the school grounds to South Stack Road and to the west, and encloses the former head-masters house (Gwynant) to the east.
Exterior
Walls are limestone rubble with cock and hen copings copings; Piers at angles and to entrances, with ornate moulded caps surmounted by ball finials (some missing); the eastern return between school grounds and garden of former head-master''s house is a lower wall of snecked stonework with ramped ashlar copings, surmounted by cast-iron railings with intermittent scroll-work panels. 2 further gate-piers in this wall, and in boundary to Seiriol Street.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value as an integral part of the design of the school.
Nearby in the register
- Cybi Building, Holyhead High SchoolEducationunder 1 mi
- Ucheldre Centre (Former Bon Sauveur Convent Chapel),Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Ty'n ParcDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hyfrydle Chapel (including Forecourt Gates and Railings)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.