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- Homes in the town averaged roughly \u00a3391,000 last year, far above the island figure of \u00a3235,000.<\/li>\n
- The castle has held World Heritage status since 1986 and carries the highest grade of protection.<\/li>\n
- The old gaol and the seafront terrace came from one architectural partnership working in the 1820s and 1830s.<\/li>\n
- Grade I applies to under one building in fifty on the Welsh list.<\/li>\n
- Consent is required for work affecting character, including something as minor as repainting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Why Beaumaris Rewards a Design Eye<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Few places of this size hold so many periods in such a tight street plan. The town was laid out from 1295 alongside its castle, and the grid that Edward I’s surveyors set down still governs how you move through it today. Castle Street runs west from the fortress, the seafront opens onto the water, and the lanes between them carry buildings from almost every century since.<\/p>\n
That density of heritage creates practical questions the moment you start looking at property. Which houses are listed, at what grade, and which sit inside the conservation area boundary. Estate and letting agents in Beaumaris<\/a> handle those distinctions daily, and a firm with local roots will know which cottage has original sash windows worth protecting and which has already been altered.<\/p>\n
Williams & Goodwin have worked across Anglesey and Gwynedd since 1985, operate in both Welsh and English, and hold membership of the Guild of Property Professionals. For a design led buyer, that kind of grounding matters more than glossy particulars.<\/p>\n
A Town Built in Layers<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The obvious starting point is the castle. Work began in April 1295 under Master James of St George, the most accomplished military engineer of the age, and the result is the purest concentric plan in Britain: an inner ring of high walls and towers wrapped by a lower outer circuit, with a moat fed by the tide and its own dock. The symmetry is close to exact. Money ran out, the towers never reached full height, and building stopped around 1330 after roughly \u00a315,000 had been spent. That arrested quality is precisely what makes it so legible to a designer.<\/p>\n
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\n Building<\/strong><\/th>\n Date<\/strong><\/th>\n Why it matters<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Beaumaris Castle<\/th>\n From 1295<\/th>\n Concentric plan, World Heritage listed<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Tudor Rose<\/th>\n About 1400<\/th>\n Among Britain’s oldest timber framed houses<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Old courthouse<\/th>\n 1614<\/th>\n Early seventeenth century interior survives<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Beaumaris Gaol<\/th>\n 1829<\/th>\n Neoclassical work by Hansom and Welch<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n Victoria Terrace<\/th>\n 1833<\/th>\n Ten house late Georgian seafront composition<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<\/table>\n Then comes the town’s great reinvention. From the mid 1820s onwards the corporation set out to turn a declining port into a fashionable resort. The Green was drained, a sea wall built, and the York partnership of Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch delivered a gaol in 1829 and, completed in 1833, the ten house sweep of Victoria Terrace facing the water. Hansom later gave his name to the cab. His terrace, three storeys over a basement with attics above, is listed at the highest grade as an outstanding late Georgian composition of national importance. The pier arrived in 1846 to a design by Frederick Foster.<\/p>\n
What the Architecture Costs<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Beaumaris commands a strong premium over the rest of Anglesey, and the reason is largely what stands on its streets. Property here changed hands at an average of about \u00a3391,375 across the last twelve months, up sharply on the year before and a little under the 2023 high of \u00a3405,876.<\/p>\n
Across the island as a whole, the average was \u00a3235,000 in early 2026, against \u00a3213,000 for Wales. First time buyers on Anglesey paid around \u00a3193,000, while the typical private rent stood near \u00a3705 each month.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nFigure 1: Average sold price by property type in Beaumaris over the past year (source: Rightmove, HM Land Registry data).<\/p>\n
Within the town, the spread by property type is wide, as the chart shows. Detached houses lead comfortably, flats occupy the middle, and terraced homes remain the most accessible route in, which is worth knowing if a period cottage rather than a villa is what you are after.<\/p>\n
Owning a Listed Building: What Consent Means<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Protection in Wales is administered by Cadw, and the grading system is worth understanding before you fall for a facade. Grade I marks buildings of exceptional interest and applies to under two per cent of the Welsh total. Grade II star, the middle tier, accounts for roughly seven per cent of listings. Grade II, the most common designation, marks buildings of special interest.<\/p>\n