Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Fog Station including former keeper's house and enclosure walls
Butetown, Cardiff, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Flat Holm Island, Butetown, Cardiff, designated on 29 March 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 29 March 1996
- Locality
- Flat Holm Island
- Community
- Butetown
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.37807, -3.11868
- Cadw reference
- 17384
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1858 · 20. Bridgewater. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 263 Cardiff (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 110. Cardiff & Mouth of the Severn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated close to the cliff about half-way along the E shore of the island.
History
The fog-station was probably established c1860, by Trinity House.
Exterior
Two buildings aligned with each other in a walled enclosure. The compressor house of the fog station is the northernmost building, with the former lighthouse-keepers' cottage adjacent to it. Compressor house is lined out render (over rubble), painted white. Flat roof behind moulded cornice and blocking course. Single storeyed, with doorway to left of centre in W-facing elevation: plank door with narrow over light, flanked by transomed windows. Wide double doors to engine room in centre of S elevation, with similar flanking windows. Fog horns mounted on the roof, from a metal drum. Former keepers' cottage alongside is built in a similar style, and is also lined-out render with flat roof behind moulded cornice and blocking course. Porch projects from W elevation. 3-window return elevations. Enclosure walls which also define gardens of dwelling, are roughly rendered rubble with segmental copings.
Reason for designation
Included as an excellent, and remarkably complete, surviving example of a fog station.
Nearby in the register
- Four Palmerstonian Gun Batteries, Flat HolmBatteryunder 1 mi
- Flat Holm Coastal and Anti-aircraft DefencesBatteryunder 1 mi
- Flat Holm Victorian Rain Water CatchmentWater Catchmentunder 1 mi
- Flat Holm Victorian Rock Cut Defensive Ditch and RampartEarthwork (unclassified)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.