Port Kale, Cable House
Telecommunications Structure (20th Century)
Site Name Port Kale, Cable House
Classification Telecommunications Structure (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dunskey Estate; Dunskey Burn; Port Mora; Laird's Bay Cable House
Canmore ID 232763
Site Number NW95NE 34
NGR NW 99129 55262
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Portpatrick
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NW95NE 34 99129 55262
See NX05NW 9.00 Dunskey House.
Cable House [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map [no date available].
Part of Dunskey House Estate.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Publication Account (2007)
This purpose-built cable house adjoining the beach one mile north of Portpatrick, was constructed in 1852 to
house apparatus for testing the telegraph cable laid between Scotland and Ireland. Because of difficulty in
obtaining cable, a second line between Portpatrick and Donaghdee was not completed until 1853. These cables
were superseded and lifted in 1983.
The cable house is double hexagonal in plan with rendered walls, masonry quoins and a pointed tiled roof.
It is on the Dunskey Estate and now disused. The cable laying contractor was Newall & Co. of Gateshead and the cable was made by the Magneto Electric Telegraph Co. Ltd.
Paxton and Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
