Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
17924
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/10/1971
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998
Name of Property
'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Aberdaron
Town
Locality
Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
Easting
211159
Northing
320590
Street Side
Location
SE of the lighthouse, within the walled enclosure which surrounds it.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Additional accommodation for lighthouse keepers, probably built c1873 (the date when the optical equiment was changed), and to a standard Trinity house design. Visible in John Thomas photograph of 1886.
Exterior
Lighthouse keepers' quarters. Whitewashed render over stone; hipped slate roof, with two axial stacks painted black. Doorways central in each gable end, with flanking windows. These, and the 3 W-facing windows, have wood-mullioned and transomed lights. Grouped windows of 1 and 2 lights in the E-facing elevation.
Interior
Internal plan has central corridor with living rooms opening off it.
Reason for designation
Part of a coherent group of buildings associated with the lighthouse, and an intact example of the later C19 type of accommodation provided by Trinity House.
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