Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Zodiac Restaurant
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 25 July 1994
- Community
- Holyhead
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.31677, -4.63557
- Cadw reference
- 14729
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On rocks below Beach Road NE of junction with Walthew Avenue.
History
Former lifeboat house, circa 1850s, now converted to restaurant.
Exterior
Rubble with freestone dressings and copings (but mainly rendered and painted), slate roof. Aligned roughly N-S with gable and facing sea. Shaped gables (similar to Holyhead market hall) with ball finials; former broad doorways covered during conversion to restaurant (added bay window to N). Long shallow extension to W side; attached gabled range to NE. Some remains of slipway mechanism to seaward side.
Reason for designation
Believed to be the oldest surviving lifeboat house in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- Trinity House OfficeCommercialunder 1 mi
- Trinity Yard Small WorkshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- Trinity Yard Large WorkshopCommercialunder 1 mi
- Caernarfon Castle P HCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.