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Glan Hafren

A Grade II Listed Building in Tref Alaw, Isle of Anglesey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3313 / 53°19'52"N

Longitude: -4.4823 / 4°28'56"W

OS Eastings: 234797

OS Northings: 384469

OS Grid: SH347844

Mapcode National: GBR HM9W.X5N

Mapcode Global: WH42C.3JVJ

Plus Code: 9C5Q8GJ9+G3

Entry Name: Glan Hafren

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Last Amended: 14 March 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5315

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300005315

Location: Set at right angles to a country road leading between the villages of Llantrisant and Llanddeusant and close to Pont Hafren, spanning the Afon Alaw; located c800m SSE of the church at Llanddeusant.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Town: Holyhead

Community: Tref Alaw

Community: Tref Alaw

Locality: Llantrisant

Traditional County: Anglesey

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History

C18 vernacular house. The house is not annotated on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llantrisant, 1843, but is recorded in both the Tithe Schedule and also the Census Returns for the parish, 1841. The house was owned by Edward Edmund Meyrick Esq, a small holding of just 1 acre (0.41 hectares) housing William Williams, blacksmith, and his family.

Exterior

C18 vernacular house; a 2 storey, 2 window range with single storey kitchen wing set at right angles to rear (N) with lean-to porch in the angle. Built of rubble masonry, gray grit rendered. Modern slate roof with rendered gable stacks to house. The entrance elevation faces the smithy to the E; central entrance in a shallow gabled porch, flanking 4-pane horned sash windows, first floor windows in gabled half dormers. Rear elevation with single 4-pane sash window to R (S) end; single storey kitchen wing and porch with modern casements.

Interior

Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a good C18 house which, notwithstanding some modernisation, retains its vernacular character. Glan Hafren forms a group with the adjacent smithy and roadbridge, Pont Hafren.

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  • II Pont Hafren
    Spanning the Afon Alaw, the boundary between the parishes of Llanddeusant and Llantrisant, Pont Hafren carries the country road between the villages of the same name; c850m SSE of the Church of St Mar
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