II*Church · listed 1966St Tegai's ChurchOn the list as Church of St TegaiPhoto: Meirion · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Llandygai · Cadw
Old homes in Llandygai: 55% built before 1919
Against 15% in the typical town, Llandygai has 4 times the share. Cadw lists 39 buildings inside Llandygai’s built-up area, 1,178 for every 10,000 residents. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
39
1,178 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
55%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Llandygai
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St TegaiGrade II* listed
Grand Lodge and forecourt wallingGrade II* listed
Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St TegaiGrade II* listedPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Llandygai’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
39 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I3 Grade II*36 Grade II
Cadw lists buildings of special architectural or historic interest in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest, Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest, and Grade II for buildings of special interest. Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on Cadw’s register of listed buildings whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Grade II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Llandygai
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1966Grand Lodge and forecourt wallingPhoto: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 2000Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St TegaiPhoto: Meirion · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Llandygai’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas33
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings2
Walls, gates & bridges1
33 entries (85%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by Cadw’s broad class for each building, else by words in its name; an entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
36 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 36 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Arfon CottageBarn Range between main and outer yards at Home FarmBodeilianCart Shelter Range at Home FarmCowhouses and Barn in outer yard at Home FarmEngine House attached to south side of threshing barn at Home FarmFicardyFormer Sawmill Manager's HouseGate piers, gates, walls and railings to churchyardH-shaped Cowhouse Range to north of main yard at Home FarmL-shaped Stable and Carriage Shed Range to main yard at Home FarmLyric CottageNeuadd TalgaiNorthern Cottage at Home FarmRose CottageSlate Direction IndicatorsSouthern Cottage at Home FarmTan y GraigTan-y-BrynTan-y-BrynTan-y-BrynThe AnchorageThe Old School HouseThreshing Barn at Home FarmTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesTre-felin CottagesYsgol Llandygai & School House22 Llandygai Village7 Llandygai Village8 Llandygai Village
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 5.4% of Llandygai
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Llandygai 19745 ha
5 hain conservation areas, of 89 ha inside the built-up area.
14 of the 39 listed buildings stand in one.
Cadw’s conservation areas via DataMapWales. Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Llandygai’s listed buildings were added in one year, 2000
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
2000 · 37
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1966. 37 came in 2000. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
World Heritage
| The Slate Landscape of Northwest WalesUNESCO World Heritage Site: the town touches its mapped area, which can include a buffer zone |
1 registered park or garden
Penrhyn CastleGrade II* · Landscape park, woodland, terraced garden, walled kitchen gardens, lawns
Homes by age
55% of Llandygai’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
52%
Before 1900
3.1%
1900–18
1.2%
1919–29
3.1%
1930s
7.5%
1945–54
1.2%
1955–64
5.6%
1965–72
9.9%
1973–82
0%
1983–92
1.2%
1993–99
1.2%
2000–08
3.1%
2009–15
11%
2016–25
LlandygaiEngland & Wales
52% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 11% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Llandygai
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llandygai | 331 | 39 | 0 | — |
| Bangor | 16,994 | 187 | 2 | A |
| Tregarth | 1,252 | 10 | 0 | A− |
| Menai Bridge | 3,045 | 28 | 0 | A− |
| Bethesda | 3,757 | 37 | 1 | A |
| Beaumaris | 1,120 | 234 | 24 | A+ |
| Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll | 2,905 | 8 | 0 | C+ |
| Clwt-y-bont | 1,385 | 2 | 0 | B− |
In brief
Llandygai in brief
Old houses are part of Llandygai’s character: 55% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 39 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974.
Most entries on the list, 85%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 2000, when 37 of the 39 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Hugh Hughes (1805) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Llandygai’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Llandygai?
Cadw lists 39 buildings inside Llandygai’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 36 Grade II.
Is Llandygai a World Heritage Site?
Part of Llandygai lies within the area Cadw maps for The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, which can include a buffer zone around the site itself.
How many conservation areas are there in Llandygai?
1, covering about 5 hectares of the town. The largest is Llandygai.
When were Llandygai’s buildings listed?
The first in 1966; the most, 37, in 2000.
How old are the homes in Llandygai?
55% of homes were built before 1919 and 59% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Llandygai has no History Grade.
Listed buildings, scheduled monuments and historic parks and gardens: Cadw, © Crown copyright, via DataMapWales.
Sources: Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Cadw conservation areas via DataMapWales (October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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