Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
20079
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/06/1998
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Pillbox adjacent to Trearddur Bay Hotel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Trearddur
Town
Trearddur Bay
Locality
Trearddur
Easting
225190
Northing
379310
Street Side
N
Location
Located on a rocky promontory to the rear (N) of the Trearddur Bay Hotel, set back from the N side of Lon Isallt.
Description
Broad Class
Defence
Period
History
Second World War pillbox fortification; part of the defences of the town of Trearddur Bay.
Exterior
Two circular plan pillboxes, one built with the entrance screening wall abutting the rear wall of the other. Built of local rubble, with rubble plinth on concrete foundations; head of wall has rubble set on end to give effect of folly or garden architecture, concealing concrete roof. Square-headed doorways and openings around circumferences; doorways protected by screen walls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as unusual example of this fortification type, to a design believed to have been used only on Anglesey.
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