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LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER

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Lighthouse. Built between 1897 and 1904. Erected as part of the Coode, Son and Matthews extensions to the Outer Pier at Folkestone Harbour. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392377
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER
Statutory Address:: LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392377
Date first listed:: 30-Jan-2008
List Entry Name:: LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER
Statutory Address 1:: LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LIGHTHOUSE AT END OF FOLKESTONE HARBOUR OUTER PIER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:: Folkestone
National Grid Reference:: TR 23890 35601

Reasons for Designation

The lighthouse at the end of the Outer Pier of Folkestone Harbour has been recommended for designation for the following reasons: * Elegant design featuring a moulded cylindrical tower * Quality of materials and craftsmanship, making prominent use of polished granite * Largely intact exterior and setting, and the beacon of this important harbour * Compares well with other listed examples of late-C19 lighthouses

Details

737/1/10037 Lighthouse at end of Folkestone Harbou 30-JAN-08 r Outer Pier

II Lighthouse. Built between 1897 and 1904. Erected as part of the Coode, Son and Matthews extensions to the Outer Pier at Folkestone Harbour.

MATERIALS: Built of granite with metal and glazed lantern.

PLAN: Circular lighthouse set on plinth with adjoining curved flight of stairs with end pier with inscriptions recording its history.

EXTERIOR: The lighthouse is constructed of granite blocks and comprises a tapering cylindrical tower of two storeys with deep moulded plinth and cornice rising above, and incorporated into, the raised south wall of the pier. The upper storey has three cambered fixed windows. Below, facing west, is a cambered headed doorcase with a four panelled door. Above the tower is a metal handrail surrounding a central glazed cylindrical lantern with domed metal cap surmounted by a metal weathervane. The lighthouse is set on a granite platform reached by a flight of five steps from the main surface of the pier. To the north is a curved flight of granite steps with solid balustrading and square pier, the centre part of polished red granite with raised panels bearing inscriptions, and moulded base and cornice. The inscription to the west reads "This pier was commenced by the South Eastern Railway Company on 28th January 1897 and completed by the South East and Chatham Railway Company on 12th July 1904. Coode Son and Matthews Engineers. William Rigby Contractors." An adjoining panel facing west records that the stone was laid by Paul Gambon on 12th July 1904.

HISTORY: The lighthouse was erected as part of the extension built between 1897 and 1904 to the outer Pier at Folkestone Harbour. Since 1843 Folkestone Harbour had belonged to the South East Railway Company for the steam packet business to France. As business increased a pier was built in a south eastern direction from the horn between 1861-3. This pier was damaged in a storm of January 1877 and was rebuilt and extended between 1881 and 1883 into deeper water so that vessels drawing 15 feet could use the pier at low water. Plans of 1882 published in 'The Engineer' show an elaborate lighthouse at its south eastern end. In January 1897 this enlarged pier was further extended by the engineering firm of Coode, Son and Matthews, incorporating tracks for travelling cranes. This lighthouse replaced the earlier lighthouse which was now no longer at the end of the pier.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The lighthouse is designated for the following reasons: * Elegant design featuring a moulded cylindrical tower * Quality of materials and craftsmanship, making prominent use of polished granite * Largely intact exterior and setting, and the beacon of this important harbour * Compares well with other listed examples of late-C19 lighthouses

SOURCES: David Evans "Folkestone Harbour Development", Unpublished report of October 2006 reproducing original plans.

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Legacy System number:: 503240
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.