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Pilot House

A Grade II Listed Building in Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.2623 / 53°15'44"N

Longitude: -4.0958 / 4°5'44"W

OS Eastings: 260303

OS Northings: 375968

OS Grid: SH603759

Mapcode National: GBR JN82.DL6

Mapcode Global: WH542.18WD

Plus Code: 9C5Q7W63+WM

Entry Name: Pilot House

Listing Date: 23 September 1950

Last Amended: 13 July 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5673

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300005673

Location: Fronting the street in a block of buildings to the W of Chapel Street.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Town: Beaumaris

Community: Beaumaris (Biwmares)

Community: Beaumaris

Built-Up Area: Beaumaris

Traditional County: Anglesey

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History

An C18 house shown on the 1829 town plan. It was formerly a single premises with Glan-y-Don attached on the L side.

Exterior

A 2½-storey 3-window house of scribed roughcast painted white with renewed steep slate roof, roughcast stack to the L (behind Glan y Don) and lateral roughcast stack behind to the R. The entrance, offset L of centre, has a half-lit panelled door under a simple slate canopy on plain corbels. Windows are 12-pane hornless sashes (the lower L window now incorporated into Glan-y-Don), except for the R side which has a 2-storey canted bay window with replacement 12-pane horned sashes.

The rear has an added 2-storey wing on the L side. On the R side is a single-storey lean-to. A central raked dormer has been infilled, and on the R side is gabled dormer.

Interior

The room on the R of the entrance has a lateral fireplace, but with replacement surround. A simple straight stair with plain newel and balusters, leads to a landing a first-floor sitting room, where the windows retain panelled reveals. The roof is carried on 5 trusses, of which 4 retain cambered collar beams.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a vernacular house with later Georgian character and detail, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Townsend.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II Glan-y-don
    Fronting the street in a block of buildings to the W of Chapel Street.
  • II Ty Anne
    Fronting the street in a block of buildings to the W of Chapel Street.
  • II Trewyn
    Fronting the street in the block of buildings on the W side of Chapel Street.
  • II Min-y-Don
    Fronting the street in a block of buildings W of Chapel Street.
  • II Seagull Cottage
    Fronting the street in a block of buildings opposite the grounds of Summerhill.
  • II Music Box
    Fronting the street in a block of houses.
  • II 27, Rosemary Lane, Beaumaris, Beaumaris
    Fronting the street in a block of buildings.
  • II The Old Barracks
    Fronting the street near the W end of Rosemary Lane, but entered from the yard on the N side.

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