Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse, Aberdaron, Gwynedd

Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7501 / 52°45'0"N

Longitude: -4.7997 / 4°47'58"W

OS Eastings: 211141

OS Northings: 320617

OS Grid: SH111206

Mapcode National: GBR GPJF.87N

Mapcode Global: WH33Z.74PK

Plus Code: 9C4QQ622+24

Entry Name: Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse

Listing Date: 29 March 1996

Last Amended: 26 June 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 17927

Building Class: Maritime

ID on this website: 300017927

Location: The walls define a large enclosure which contains the lighthouse and its associated buildings.

County: Gwynedd

Community: Aberdaron

Locality: Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island

Traditional County: Caernarfonshire

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History

Enclosing walls to lighthouse complex, originally containing also the allotment gardens of the keepers' dwellings to the E. C19, visible in 1886 John Thomas photographs.

Exterior

Rough rubble walls, rendered, originally whitewashed, with raking copings.

Reasons for Listing

An important part of the original layout of the lighthouse compound, and part of a coherent group of structures associated with it.

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Other nearby listed buildings

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 'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse
SE of the lighthouse, within the walled enclosure which surrounds it.
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 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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Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Aberdaron, Gwynedd