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Latitude: 53.2445 / 53°14'40"N
Longitude: -4.1495 / 4°8'58"W
OS Eastings: 256662
OS Northings: 374094
OS Grid: SH566740
Mapcode National: GBR JN33.ZZQ
Mapcode Global: WH541.7Q92
Plus Code: 9C5Q6VV2+Q5
Entry Name: Wellhouse by Hen Ysgol
Listing Date: 28 May 2003
Last Amended: 28 May 2003
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 81146
Building Class: Water Supply and Drainage
ID on this website: 300081146
Location: Set alongside the N side of Bro Llewellyn at the N end of the village of Llangegfan; directly to SE of Hen Ysgol.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Community: Cwm Cadnant
Community: Cwm Cadnant
Locality: Llandegfan
Built-Up Area: Menai Bridge
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Well
Late C19 wellhouse, dated by the inscription upon the exposed face of the tie beam which bears the date : A D 1899.
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.
There is a shallow stone trough along the L inner wall.
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.
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