Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 1996. Engine house, fog station.
Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-mortar-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Engine house, fog station
- Address
- Former Engine House and Fog Station at Bardsey Lighthouse, Yr Enlli / Bardsey Island, Aberdaron
- OS grid reference
- SH 111 205
- Coordinates
- 52.7499, -4.79985
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former engine house and fog station at Bardsey Lighthouse is a single-storey structure with a circular plan, finished in lined-out whitewashed render. It features a projecting rectangular porch and has a massive moulded cornice and blocking course. All openings, including the double doors of the porch and the five windows, have hood moulds. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with the upper lights raked back. To the south of the engine house is a tall rectangular block with a single doorway, which was the original fog station but was replaced around 1970 by a new building outside the compound.
Local climate
Former Engine House and Fog Station 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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