| Disability Access Assessment at Neuadd
Farm
- Neuadd Farm is a 300year old traditional welsh
farmhouse.
- The walls are 2ft thick and made of stone.
Therefore it is extremely difficult to make any structural alterations.
- The farmhouse is a split level building with
2 stone steps to the kitchen, 1step to the patio and 3 large
steps to the garden.
- All bedrooms and bathroom/toilet are upstairs
-11 step staircase with a left hand turn at the top.
- All beds have poly-cotton or cotton sheets
and duvet covers and polyester fillings.
- Large car park on a long driveway.
- Plenty of room to bring a car to the front
door.
- Outside front door width1m 92cms.
- Inside front door width 1m 54cms.
- Small step into hallway.
- Large lounge on left with 2 doorways width
80cms.
- 2 slate steps into kitchen, with 1 grab handle.
- 1 step from kitchen to patio.
- 3 steps from patio into garden.
- Garden all grass but on a step slope with small
trees and shrubs.
- Hallway 1.5cms but narrows to 55cms then to
1m wide.
- 10 steps on staircase, left turn 1 step (mini
landing).
- Low arch over stairs.
- 4 bedrooms with doorways 70-80cms wide.
- Bathroom with shower over bath-2 hand grabs
and shower screen.
- Wash basin with hot and cold water.
- Separate toilet with hand wash basin - 1m 53cms
x 1m 12cms.
- The house has oil central heating with additional
heating in the form of a coal effect electric fire. Electric
cooker, microwave and automatic washer dryer.
- The hallway has quarry tiles, the remainder
of the house has fitted carpets.
- Cemaes Bay has several shops, post office,
chemist. A fish and
chip shop and various hotels serving food. The local Heritage
Centre has a tea room serving home made snacks cakes and pastries,
a small exhibition of photos and artefacts relating to by gone
days and a Tele centre. Cemaes Bay also has it’s own doctor’s
surgery and dentist.
- Amlwch is a small town 5 miles away. Holyhead
is 16 miles away and Bangor 25miles away The county town of
Llangefni is 16 miles inland.
- The Amlwch to Holyhead buss service stops about
15 yards from the farm gate. There are connections to Bangor
and other parts of the island.
- Holyhead (16 miles away) has the nearest train
station or Bangor (25 miles away).
- The Stenna and Irish Ferries sail to Ireland
several times a day from Holyhead.
- Mobile phone coverage is not very good from
the house as it has thick stone walls but a good reception can
be obtained from outside.
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