Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327597
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
- Statutory Address:
- Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1327597
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter 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:
- Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gwinear-Gwithian
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 57659 43589
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 31 May 2024 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
SW 54 SE
1/20
GWINEAR-GWITHIAN
GODREVY ISLAND
Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls
II
Lighthouse, keepers' cottages, store, front courtyard wall and perimeter walls. 1859. Designed by James Walker.
MATERIALS: Painted stucco over rubble. Cottages are slurried rubble. One cottage has grouted slate roof.
PLAN: octagonal plan.
EXTERIOR: Five floors plus lantern. Four small windows to each floor arranged on alternate faces so that there are alternately three windows or two windows to each face. Moulded cornice to walkway with iron railings outside the lantern. Braced glazing and conical roof with finial, with weather vane to lantern.
INTERIOR: not inspected. The cottages are small, rectangular on plan and single storeyed. Cottage nearest the lighthouse is roofless and one gable end has fallen. The other cottage has coped gable ends. Behind the lighthouse is a large store with mono-pitch roof. The lighthouse stands on a level platform with walls at the sides. Another wall encloses an approximately oval shaped 'garden' with three entrances approached by steps to serve alternative landing sites (all potentially extremely hazardous).
HISTORY: Before the lighthouse was built many vessels were wrecked on this stretch of coast, notably the iron-screwsteamer NILE which was lost on 30th September 1854 with all passengers and crew. Situated on Godrevy Island off Godrevy Point. Godrevy lighthouse was almost certainly the subject of 'To The Lighthouse' (1927) by Virginia Woolf. Godrevy lighthouse was manned until September 7th 1934, when it became automatically activated by a 'Sun Valve' on top of the lantern roof. Since this time the keepers' cottages have been neglected.
SOURCES: S (PR) 2 46.
Listing NGR: SW5765943589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70115
- 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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