Office and Stores Building, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.3123 / 53°18'44"N

Longitude: -4.6297 / 4°37'47"W

OS Eastings: 224903

OS Northings: 382711

OS Grid: SH249827

Mapcode National: GBR GMYY.G17

Mapcode Global: WH31B.V0KJ

Plus Code: 9C5Q896C+W4

Entry Name: Office and Stores Building

Listing Date: 17 October 1986

Last Amended: 25 July 1994

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 5735

Building Class: Commercial

ID on this website: 300005735

Location: Part of a large group of marine workshop buildings opposite Water Street, this block behind Fitting, Boiler, and Smithy Shops facing harbour.

County: Isle of Anglesey

Community: Holyhead (Caergybi)

Community: Holyhead

Built-Up Area: Holyhead

Traditional County: Anglesey

Tagged with: Office building Storage building

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History

1880-90, extended after 1916.

Exterior

Long 2-storey range, grey-green rubble, pale dressings, slate roofs with cut-down chimney stacks, projecting eaves, brackets to bargeboards. Facing harbour, irregular 10-window top floor 12-pane sashes with narrow 7-pane windows to L; arched voussoir heads to fixed lights on ground floor. Offset left hand lean-to (2 windows), deep hooded canopy with serrated valences to segmental stores entrance in centre.

Left gable end (rendered) has arched louvred ventilator near apex, central arched window with smaller window below, 2 first floor windows, one ground floor window to L, as narrow windows of front. Right gable has two first floor windows. Lean-to extension with arched openings to R some original iron windows with central hinged casement. Interior said to retain boardroom.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as part of a (probably) unique group of purpose-built marine service buildings at a major British ferry port.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Fitting, Boiler and Smithy Shops
Opposite Water Street. Irregular group of 3 parallel ranges to rear (NW) of office and stores building, the Smithy overlooks Victoria Road.
II Store, Old Boiler Shop & Sawmill buildings at Marine Yard
Opposite Water Street.
II Sailmakers, Seamstresses and Polishers Workshops
Opposite Cross Street.
II Lower Churchyard Walls and Gateway
Below St Cybi’s Church, parallel to road enclosing lower level of churchyard.
I St Cybi's Church
In chuchyard overlooking inner harbour, entered by archway from Market Square.
I Walls of upper churchyard
Between Stanley Street and Victoria Road enclosing St Gybi’s Church, and Capel-y-Bedd, entered by gateway from Market Square.
II Stanley House
At SE corner of Churchyard, adjacent to entrance arches, with rear facing over Holyhead inner harbour.
II Capel y Bedd
In churchyard overlooking inner harbour, entered by archway from Market Square. To S of St Gybi’s Church near archway to churchyard.

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Office and Stores Building

A Grade II Listed Building in Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey