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Latitude: 52.7499 / 52°44'59"N
Longitude: -4.7998 / 4°47'59"W
OS Eastings: 211129
OS Northings: 320595
OS Grid: SH111205
Mapcode National: GBR GPJF.G4G
Mapcode Global: WH33Z.74MP
Plus Code: 9C4QP6X2+X3
Entry Name: Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey Lighthouse
Listing Date: 29 March 1996
Last Amended: 26 June 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 17926
Building Class: Maritime
Location: West of the lighthouse tower, towards the western edge of the walled compound.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Aberdaron
Community: Aberdaron
Locality: Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Probably built in 1883 when the optic was renewed as a rotative light. Designed according to a standard Trinity House model. Visible in 1886 John Thomas photograph.
Former engine-house and fog-station. Lined-out whitewashed render. Single storeyed, the engine house is circular in plan, with a projecting rectangular porch. Massive moulded cornice and blocking course; hood moulds to all openings, including the double doors of the porch and the 5 windows, which are all mullioned and transomed, with the upper lights raked back. Projecting from the engine house to the S is a tall rectangular block with single doorway, the original fog station, replaced c1970 by a new building outside the compound.
Included for group value with other buildings in important lighthouse complex.
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