Plas Cadnant domestic service outbuilding and wall is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1997. Outbuilding.

Plas Cadnant domestic service outbuilding and wall

WRENN ID
roaming-storey-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 1997
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Plas Cadnant domestic service outbuilding and wall, Cwm Cadnant, Menai Bridge
OS grid reference
SH 556 732
Coordinates
53.23624, -4.16427
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Plas Cadnant is a domestic service outbuilding and wall, built in an asymmetrical two-storey design parallel to the house across a yard. The structure features random rubble walls and slate lintels, topped with a hipped roof made of large slates arranged in diminishing courses. It has two rectangular brick chimneys positioned centrally. To the left, there is a covered passage with heavy stone lintels that leads to a larger yard containing a coach-house. The windows consist of 12-pane and 16-pane fixed lights, with large openings flanking the passage; the left opening includes a ventilated feature.

Adjoining the left end is a roofless building that has a massive stone lintel over the front door, a cambered brick lintel at the rear, and a window on the end wall. At right angles to the main range is a three-unit lean-to, currently roofless, which is built against a high stone wall that forms the boundary of the yard on the southwest side. Tall iron gates situated between the lean-to and the house provide access from the track that runs past the house. The yard is enclosed to the northeast by a lower stone wall.

To the left of the passage is a washhouse or bakehouse, which is unlofted and has a storage area above the passageway, along with a brick oven or boiler base. It features a king-post roof truss. To the right of the passage is an unlofted room without external access, which is reached from the store/bakehouse and has servant's quarters above. This room contains a small fireplace on the ground floor, with a brick oven or boiler base in the corner. The first-floor servant's quarters, accessed by a separate door and internal wooden staircase, also has a small brick fireplace. The main transverse beam has been re-set at a diagonal to accommodate an enlarged window at the rear, and iron bacon hooks are attached to the beam. The room at the extreme right serves as a dairy and salting room, featuring a slate slab floor, limewashed walls, a slate bench around all sides, and a slate trough for salting bacon or skimming milk. The lean-to range against the high wall to the left has tiled and brick floors.

Local climate

Plas Cadnant domestic service outbuilding and wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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