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Latitude: 53.357 / 53°21'25"N
Longitude: -3.3222 / 3°19'19"W
OS Eastings: 312097
OS Northings: 385269
OS Grid: SJ120852
Mapcode National: GBR 5Y7M.KB
Mapcode Global: WH763.YW5C
Plus Code: 9C5R9M4H+Q4
Entry Name: Point of Ayr Lighthouse
Listing Date: 16 November 1973
Last Amended: 30 April 2001
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 520
Building Class: Maritime
Also known as: Talacre Lighthouse
Point of Ayr Old Lighthouse
ID on this website: 300000520
Location: Situated at the water's edge approximately 0.75km west long the foreshore from Point of Ayr. Reached NE off A548, through Talacre and by foot over a short railed causeway.
County: Flintshire
Town: Holywell
Community: Llanasa
Community: Llanasa
Locality: Point of Ayr
Built-Up Area: Talacre
Traditional County: Flintshire
Tagged with: Lighthouse
Built in 1776, to the design of Joseph Turner of Hawarden, as a landfall light marking the entrance to the Dee Estuary, and constructed following the loss of 2 Dublin packets. The structure was modelled on a pre-existing Liverpool Docks Board light at Hoylake. Trinity House assumed responsibility for the light in 1819 and rebuilt the upper section with a new lantern light. The lighthouse was superseded in 1844 by a piled structure built close by, which was itself replaced by a lightship in 1883, but this has not survived.
A whitewashed rendered brick three-storeyed tower tapering upwards from a black plinth; now slightly leaning. The structure is topped by a red-domed lantern with wrought-iron plates and vertical glazing bars, with a railed walkway projecting on moulded corbels. A round-headed doorway is above basement level. Each storey has wide segmental-headed windows. The optic has been removed.
Listed as a well-preserved early lighthouse which retains what may be the earliest lantern in Wales.
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