Foreland Point Lighthouse and Adjoining Retaining Walls
FORELAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ADJOINING RETAINING WALLS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213091
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Foreland Point Lighthouse and Adjoining Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address:
- FORELAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ADJOINING RETAINING WALLS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213091
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Foreland Point Lighthouse and Adjoining Retaining Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORELAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ADJOINING RETAINING WALLS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORELAND POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ADJOINING RETAINING WALLS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brendon and Countisbury
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 75389 51096
Details
COUNTISBURY FORELAND POINT SS 75 Sll 2/33 Foreland Point Lighthouse and - adjoining retaining walls - II Lighthouse and adjoining retaining walls. 1900, with some mid - to - late alterations. Cement rendered, lined as ashlar, possibly over rubble. 2-span hipped Welsh-slate roof over domestic range and painted metal fittings to tower. Painted rubble retaining walls with rounded copings and granite steps. Plan: sited on the steep slope of the headland (Foreland Point); consisting of a terrace with retaining walls and flanking flights of steps and domestic range with covered staircase link down the slope to the circular tower on the north (seaward) side of the site. Tower of 2 stages and domestic range of one storey with basement. Exterior: lower stage of tower with plinth and frieze, small-headed wooden casements to each side with raised quoined surrounds, and C20 flat-roofed addition to seaward side housing fog signal equipment. Light-stage with projecting railed walkway, lattice metal glazing bars (metal panels screening each diamond light on landward side), domed metal roof with handrail and low domed cylindrical cap with gilded weathervane. Linking corridor to domestic range with frieze and cornice bands, and blocking course; each has side small wooden casements with quoined surrounds, flanking central entrance. Domestic range with raised quoins, string course between basement and ground floor to north, architrave and frieze barrels and 3 axial brick stacks to each ridge. 3:3:3 bays; wooden cross windows with raised quoined surrounds. Three-bay end elevations with wooden cross and central boarded doorways, all with raised quoined surrounds. Interior: of tower; largely unaltered since 1900, but converted to electricity in 1975. Lamp resting on mercury bath supported on 6 cast-iron columns. Lamp flushes 4 turns per second. Ground-floor with central weight tuke (formerly containing weights for winding system used prior to introduction of electricity), and curved wooden glazed cupboard with lead-lined sink in base. Cast-iron staircase with brass handrail. Brass fittings throughout. Plaque inscribed: "THIS LIGHTHOUSE/WAS ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HOUSE/IN THE YEAR 1900./CAPTAIN H.R.H. THE DUKE OF YORK R.N. MASTER/CAPTAIN GEORGE RAWLINSON VYVYAN, DEPUTY MASTER:/T. MATHEWS, ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF". Interior of domestic range not inspected.
Listing NGR: SS7538951096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 397611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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