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
5529
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/01/1968
Date of Amendment
17/07/2002
Name of Property
Former Telegraph Station
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Community
Llangoed
Town
Locality
Puffin Island
Easting
265445
Northing
382348
Street Side
Location
Located at the NE end of the small island of Priestholm, or Puffin Island, off the SE tip of the Isle of Anglesey.
Description
Broad Class
Maritime
Period
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.
Interior
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.
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