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Latitude: 53.3667 / 53°22'0"N
Longitude: -4.5322 / 4°31'55"W
OS Eastings: 231614
OS Northings: 388527
OS Grid: SH316885
Mapcode National: GBR HM5S.YJK
Mapcode Global: WH424.CM1W
Plus Code: 9C5Q9F89+M4
Entry Name: Cae Hen
Listing Date: 27 November 2000
Last Amended: 27 November 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 24433
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300024433
Location: Located at the S side of a junction in the road c40m S of the village of Rhydwyn.
County: Isle of Anglesey
Community: Cylch-y-Garn
Community: Cylch-y-Garn
Locality: Rhydwyn
Traditional County: Anglesey
Tagged with: Cottage
Late C18 or early C19 cottage, originally a cottage and cowhouse, with cottage at N end. The central doorway to the cottage was blocked and the living accommodation extended into the original cowhouse, with the new entrance via the former cowhouse door to L of cottage; new cowhouse built to S end of range in late C19. Marked as a small rectangle on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llanrhuddlad, 1843. Cae Hen was owned by Edward Edmund Meyrick Esq and was a smallholding of just over 6 acres(2.4 hectares) farmed by Richard Hughes and his family.
Single storey 2-unit cottage with brick built lean-to additions to rear (W) and R (N) end. Built of stone, roughcast rendered elevations. Roof of small old slates with brick coping. Rendered rectangular gable stacks, that to R (N) with dripstone and capping; a massive square stack denoting end of original cottage. Entrance elevation faces E, boarded door with rectangular fanlight offset to L with single window to L, 2 windows to R; all windows are 4-pane horned sashes. To the rear there are 2 similar windows to L end and a small sash window within a partially blocked doorway to the R. Lean-to kitchen addition offset to the R is brick built on boulder foundations and has a corrugated iron roof; a boarded door and fixed light in the N wall, modern top-hung casement window in the W wall. At the left end of the range is another brick built lean-to addition (privy) with corrugated iron roof and boarded door; there is a single pane casement in the N gable apex over. At the S end of the range (against the wall of the former cowhouse) is a low, rubblestone cowhouse with grouted slate roof; doorway at L end and widened doorway to R with inserted window to its L.
Interior not inspected at the time of survey.
Listed as a well-preserved small vernacular cottage, retaining its character in use of materials and in the arrangement of openings.
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