Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Point of Ayr Lighthouse
Llanasa, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Point of Ayr, Holywell, Llanasa, Flintshire, designated on 16 November 1973.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 16 November 1973
- Locality
- Point of Ayr
- Town
- Holywell
- Community
- Llanasa
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.35697, -3.32220
- Cadw reference
- 520
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1883 map "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1885 · OS One-Inch (Hills) 1885-1903 (National Library of Scotland)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1930 · OS Popular Edition 1919-1947 (National Library of Scotland)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the water's edge approximately 0.75km west long the foreshore from Point of Ayr. Reached NE off A548, through Talacre and by foot over a short railed causeway.
History
Built in 1776, to the design of Joseph Turner of Hawarden, as a landfall light marking the entrance to the Dee Estuary, and constructed following the loss of 2 Dublin packets. The structure was modelled on a pre-existing Liverpool Docks Board light at Hoylake. Trinity House assumed responsibility for the light in 1819 and rebuilt the upper section with a new lantern light. The lighthouse was superseded in 1844 by a piled structure built close by, which was itself replaced by a lightship in 1883, but this has not survived.
Exterior
A whitewashed rendered brick three-storeyed tower tapering upwards from a black plinth; now slightly leaning. The structure is topped by a red-domed lantern with wrought-iron plates and vertical glazing bars, with a railed walkway projecting on moulded corbels. A round-headed doorway is above basement level. Each storey has wide segmental-headed windows. The optic has been removed.
Reason for designation
Listed as a well-preserved early lighthouse which retains what may be the earliest lantern in Wales.
Nearby in the register
- CartrefDomestic1 mi
- Folly Tower at Talacre AbbeyGardens, Parks and Urban Spaces2 mi
- Garden steps on N side of Talacre AbbeyGardens, Parks and Urban Spaces2 mi
- Grotto adjoining Folly Tower at Talacre AbbeyGardens, Parks and Urban Spaces2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.