'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse, Aberdaron, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7499 / 52°44'59"N

Longitude: -4.7994 / 4°47'57"W

OS Eastings: 211159

OS Northings: 320590

OS Grid: SH111205

Mapcode National: GBR GPJF.GC1

Mapcode Global: WH33Z.74TQ

Plus Code: 9C4QP6X2+W6

Entry Name: 'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse

Listing Date: 19 October 1971

Last Amended: 26 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 17924

Building Class: Domestic

ID on this website: 300017924

Location: SE of the lighthouse, within the walled enclosure which surrounds it.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Aberdaron

Locality: Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Additional accommodation for lighthouse keepers, probably built c1873 (the date when the optical equiment was changed), and to a standard Trinity house design. Visible in John Thomas photograph of 1886.

Exterior

Lighthouse keepers' quarters. Whitewashed render over stone; hipped slate roof, with two axial stacks painted black. Doorways central in each gable end, with flanking windows. These, and the 3 W-facing windows, have wood-mullioned and transomed lights. Grouped windows of 1 and 2 lights in the E-facing elevation.

Interior

Internal plan has central corridor with living rooms opening off it.

Reasons for Listing

Part of a coherent group of buildings associated with the lighthouse, and an intact example of the later C19 type of accommodation provided by Trinity House.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Stores Buildings at Bardsey Lighthouse
A group of 3 buildings close to the 'New Keepers' Quarters, and built against the S boundary wall of the compound.
II Bardsey Island Lighthouse with attached keepers' house
On rising ground at the south end of the island, in a walled enclosure.
II Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey Lighthouse
West of the lighthouse tower, towards the western edge of the walled compound.
II Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse
The walls define a large enclosure which contains the lighthouse and its associated buildings.
II Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch
The southernmost of the farms on the island, on the E side of the track some 500m NE of the slipway.
II Walls to Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch
Garden walls surrounding Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch.
II Walled Court to Rhedynog Goch and Ty Pellaf
Situated to SE of Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch, some 500m NE of the slipway.
II Limekiln
Situated at intersection of main island track and track to Ty Pellaf and Rhedynog Goch.

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'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberdaron, Gwynedd