Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse
Aberdaron, Gwynedd, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron, Gwynedd, designated on 29 March 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 29 March 1996
- Locality
- Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
- Community
- Aberdaron
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.75008, -4.79968
- Cadw reference
- 17927
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 133 Bardsey Island (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The walls define a large enclosure which contains the lighthouse and its associated buildings.
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.
Reason for designation
An important part of the original layout of the lighthouse compound, and part of a coherent group of structures associated with it.
Nearby in the register
- Bardsey Island Lighthouse with attached keepers' houseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- 'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey LighthouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stores Buildings at Bardsey LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.