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Point of Ayr Lighthouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Talacre, Flintshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.357 / 53°21'25"N

Longitude: -3.3222 / 3°19'19"W

OS Eastings: 312097

OS Northings: 385269

OS Grid: SJ120852

Mapcode National: GBR 5Y7M.KB

Mapcode Global: WH763.YW5C

Plus Code: 9C5R9M4H+Q4

Entry Name: Point of Ayr Lighthouse

Listing Date: 16 November 1973

Last Amended: 30 April 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 520

Building Class: Maritime

Also known as: Talacre Lighthouse
Point of Ayr Old Lighthouse

ID on this website: 300000520

Location: Situated at the water's edge approximately 0.75km west long the foreshore from Point of Ayr. Reached NE off A548, through Talacre and by foot over a short railed causeway.

County: Flintshire

Town: Holywell

Community: Llanasa

Community: Llanasa

Locality: Point of Ayr

Built-Up Area: Talacre

Traditional County: Flintshire

Tagged with: Lighthouse

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History

Built in 1776, to the design of Joseph Turner of Hawarden, as a landfall light marking the entrance to the Dee Estuary, and constructed following the loss of 2 Dublin packets. The structure was modelled on a pre-existing Liverpool Docks Board light at Hoylake. Trinity House assumed responsibility for the light in 1819 and rebuilt the upper section with a new lantern light. The lighthouse was superseded in 1844 by a piled structure built close by, which was itself replaced by a lightship in 1883, but this has not survived.

Exterior

A whitewashed rendered brick three-storeyed tower tapering upwards from a black plinth; now slightly leaning. The structure is topped by a red-domed lantern with wrought-iron plates and vertical glazing bars, with a railed walkway projecting on moulded corbels. A round-headed doorway is above basement level. Each storey has wide segmental-headed windows. The optic has been removed.

Reasons for Listing

Listed as a well-preserved early lighthouse which retains what may be the earliest lantern in Wales.

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