The Orchard, Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey

Entry Name: The Orchard

Listing Date: 23 September 1950

Last Amended: 13 July 2005

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5661

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300005661

Location: Set back from the road in its own grounds at the corner with New Street.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Town: Beaumaris

Community: Beaumaris (Biwmares)

Community: Beaumaris

Built-Up Area: Beaumaris

Traditional County: Anglesey

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History

Part of an C18 house, comprising The Orchard, The Hermitage and Old Barracks Cottage, and known as The Hermitage. The main house was what is now The Orchard, with service rooms contained in what is now the Hermitage and Old Barracks Cottage. Old Barracks Cottage is the earliest component of the 3 sections that made up the house. The house is shown on the 1829 town plan. It was divided into separate dwellings in the second half of the C20.

Exterior

A late-Georgian 2½-storey 3-window house of pebble-dashed walls, slate roof and end stacks. The symmetrical front has a shallow late C19 porch with curly barge boards and finial, and a half-lit panel door with marginal glazing and overlight. Inside the porch is the original fielded-panel door with panelled reveals. In the lower storey are replacement 12-pane sash windows. The upper storey windows are 12-pane horned sashes. In a broad central gable is a pointed Gothic sash window.

The rear has a central round-headed small-pane sash window lighting the stair. The upper storey has 12-pane hornless sash windows to the R and L, and 2 hipped dormers with replacement windows. The lower storey has an added 1-storey addition built as a lean-to against the adjoining property, The Hermitage. To the R is an added 1-storey projection.

Interior

A centrally planned house with entrance hall and, at the rear, an open-well stair with turned newel, plain balusters and scrolled tread ends. The L-hand room has 2 round-headed round-backed niches, between which is a round-headed doorway with radial-glazed overlight, now concealed within the rear projection. The R-hand rear room has an elliptical-headed doorway, now blocked but retaining an overlight with Gothic intersecting glazing bars, that formerly led into the Hermitage.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special architectural interest as a late Georgian house retaining definite character, an integral part of a group of buildings making up a large early C19 house now known as The Orchard, The Hermitage and Old Barracks Cottage, and for its contribution to the historical integrity of Rosemary Lane.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II The Hermitage
Set well back from the street and reached by path immediately W of The Old Barracks, or from New Street to the N by private drive.
II Doorway at entrance to the Orchard
On the corner of Rosemary Lane and New Street.
II Old Barracks Cottage
Set well back from the street and reached off the private drive to The Hermitage, which adjoins on the W side.
II Outbuilding at entrance to the Orchard
On the E side of the entrance to the Orchard on the corner with New Street.
II Garden wall on W and N sides of The Orchard and The Hermitage
Facing New Street at the rear of The Orchard and The Hermitage, terminating at the SW end at the corner of Rosemary Lane and New Street.
II Hermitage Cottage
Fronting the street E of the entrance to The Orchard, with the entrance to The Hermitage immediately to its R.
II Doorway at entrance to The Hermitage
Facing the street, between Hermitage Cottage to the W and The Old Barracks to the E.
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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The Orchard

A Grade II Listed Building in Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey

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