Full Report for Listed Buildings


Summary Description of a Listed Buildings


Reference Number
17927
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/03/1996  
Date of Amendment
26/06/1998  
Name of Property
Compound Walls at Bardsey Lighthouse  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Gwynedd  
Community
Aberdaron  
Town
 
Locality
Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island  
Easting
211141  
Northing
320617  
Street Side
 
Location
The walls define a large enclosure which contains the lighthouse and its associated buildings.  

Description


Broad Class
Maritime  
Period
 

History
Enclosing walls to lighthouse complex, originally containing also the allotment gardens of the keepers' dwellings to the E. C19, visible in 1886 John Thomas photographs.  

Exterior
Rough rubble walls, rendered, originally whitewashed, with raking copings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
An important part of the original layout of the lighthouse compound, and part of a coherent group of structures associated with it.  

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