Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former powder magazine for fog signalling station and enclosure walls
Trearddur, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in North Stack, Trearddur, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 30 June 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 30 June 1998
- Locality
- North Stack
- Community
- Trearddur
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32241, -4.68166
- Cadw reference
- 20076
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the NE corner of Holy Island, on the edge of high cliffs, in an enclosure bounded by a low stone wall. Reached via a rough track over the headland.
History
Built in 1861 by Trinity House, as a charge store for the the adjacent fog warning cannon. At this time cliff-top cannons were fired throughout the night during foggy weather to warn shipping of coastal dangers. The cannons were made at the Woolwich Arsenal. The building subsequently housed a fog warning klaxon.
Exterior
A small, single storey building, rectangular in plan, with a narrow, grilled, door to the gable end facing away from the sea. Walls built of coursed rubble; rounded parapets to gable ends, with square step to apex, and quarter-round corbels. Pitched slate roof covering with heavy ridge tiles. The entire building and walls are limewashed. Over the door is the Trinity House coat of arms with '1861' inscribed above and 'MAGAZINE' below. The building is within an enclosure defined by low white-washed rubble walls.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good, well-preserved example of one of the specialised building types developed by Trinity House in association with coastal navigation, and of local historical interest as part of the warning system guiding coastal traffic associated with the port of Holyhead, a major port in the C19.
Nearby in the register
- Caer y TŵrTowerunder 1 mi
- Enclosed Hut Circle Settlement at Capel LlochwyddEnclosed hut circle settlementunder 1 mi
- Gogarth Bay round cairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
- Gunpowder MagazineIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.