Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Telegraph Station
Llangoed, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Maritime
- Date of designation
- 30 January 1968
- Locality
- Puffin Island
- Community
- Llangoed
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.32091, -4.02152
- Cadw reference
- 5529
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 1883 "Watershed map England, Wales 3." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Located at the NE end of the small island of Priestholm, or Puffin Island, off the SE tip of the Isle of Anglesey.
History
A former Telegraph Station, built in 1841, and one of the original stations on the Holyhead to Liverpool Telegraph which first operated in 1827. The Census Returns for the parish in 1841 record that James Adams, a signalman from Cornwall, lived at the station, along with his wife and 2 young children. The Adams family occupied the station until the 1860s; the Census Returns for 1871 records the 'Puffin Island House' as unoccupied. In 1887 the station was converted from a Dock Board Observatory to a Biological Station. The building is now derelict.
Exterior
Single storey, 2 windows; built of brick and stone, with central chimney and wing to north.
Reason for designation
Listed as a C19 telegraph station of historic interest as one of a series of such stations providing communication links along the North Wales coast from Liverpool to Holyhead.
Nearby in the register
- Tower & Remains of Church and Monastic Settlement on Puffin IslandMonastic settlementunder 1 mi
- Remains of monastic settlement including tower and wallsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Trwyn Du, or Black Point, LighthouseMaritimeunder 1 mi
- Pilot's Cottage (former No 2)Domestic1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.