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Plas Penrhyn

A Grade II Listed Building in Rhosyr, Isle of Anglesey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1469 / 53°8'48"N

Longitude: -4.3112 / 4°18'40"W

OS Eastings: 245523

OS Northings: 363576

OS Grid: SH455635

Mapcode National: GBR 5G.5P6H

Mapcode Global: WH43D.R57C

Plus Code: 9C5Q4MWQ+PG

Entry Name: Plas Penrhyn

Listing Date: 19 October 1998

Last Amended: 19 October 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20572

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300020572

Location: Located at the end of a private lane off the S side of the A4080 SE of Dwyran; the house is set back from the NW side of the Menai Strait.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Community: Rhosyr

Community: Rhosyr

Traditional County: Anglesey

Tagged with: Architectural structure Mansion

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History

Mid C19; the house is not on the Tithe Map of the parish, 1840, and is first mentioned in the parish census returns in 1861.

Exterior

A small country villa in a simplified classical style. 2-storey, 3-window range; with 2-storey wing set at right angles to rear and single storey central porch to front. Stucco elevations throughout; hipped slate roof with tall rectangular, rendered end stacks with stressed drip course and cornice. Entrance elevation a 3-window range, symmetrically planned, with central porch and slightly recessed flanking bays. Windows are slightly recessed hornless sashes; 1st floor 12-pane, ground floor 6 over 2-pane. Porch has the entrance in the right return and a single, round-headed light to front; slightly stressed angles and moulded cornice below a shallow parapet. Side elevations have windows to the rear; 1st floor 12-pane sash windows, left hand return with ground floor, 19-pane light (2 panes are side-hung casements). The wing to the rear has modern windows.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good example of a mid C19 small country house, a well-detailed villa built to command a prospect, one of a series of such properties built overlooking the Menai Strait during the C19.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Talgwynedd
    In its own grounds towards the end of a lane running towards the shore-line SE of the A4080, and some 2km SE of Dwyran.
  • II Capel Quirt
    Located at the NE side of a corner of a country road leading S off the A4080; c1.5km SE of Dwyran.
  • II Cae'r Llechau
    1km approx. due south of the village of Dwyran, approached from a lane running south-west from the small road that links the village to the shore at Menaifron

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