Hilbre Island

Hilbre Island has some historic buildings and a ruined lifeboat station.

Bouy Master’s House and Bouy Store

Grade II listed house and store built around 1836 from roughcast with a slate roof to an L-plan design. The house has two storeys and three bays with an adjoining one-storey wing to the left. The windows are sashed with glazing bars. A central entrance to tge house has an overlight with glazing bars and four-panel door.

There is a wing for buoy storage - now mostly converted to domestic use - which has gable to the end bay with a small bell attached. There are casement windows to the south facade with sashes and glazing bars. The entrance has a 20th Century porch and the side entrance has paired doors leading to the store in the end bay.

Telegraph Station

The telegraph station, built in 1841 for Liverpool Dock Trustees is of painted stone with a slate roof. With one storey and a bowed north end. The Bowed end has small-paned glazing with four brass gimbals for telescopes. The east facade has a timber platform and elliptical-headed entrance. The telegraph station on Hilbre island was built as part of a relay of seven stations from Point Lynus to Liverpool transmitting information on merchant ships sailing to Liverpool.

Created: 18  June  2021  Edited: 29  November  2023