'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 October 1971. Lighthouse.
'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- stony-chalk-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- 'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse, Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron
- OS grid reference
- SH 111 205
- Coordinates
- 52.74986, -4.79941
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The building known as 'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse is a pair of lighthouse keepers' quarters. It features whitewashed render over stone and has a hipped slate roof with two axial stacks that are painted black. The doorways are centrally located in each gable end, flanked by windows. The windows, including the three facing west, have wood-mullioned and transomed lights, while the east-facing elevation has grouped windows consisting of one and two lights. Inside, the layout includes a central corridor with living rooms that open off of it.
Local climate
'New Keepers' Quarters' at Bardsey Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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