For 'Heritage Counts 2019'. Photographer's note: 'outer lighthouse commissioned by Trinity House with work commencing in 1862 and completion in 1863. Designed with four massive tubular legs (arranged in `V'shaped pairs) to support an octagonal superstructure. The access stairs also terminate with a gate some 2m from the base, but are less elaborate than those of the inner light, reaching the doorway on the southern side in a single flight. The construction of the two storey superstructure is comparable to the inner lighthouse, with matching internal stairs, balcony, window casements and lamp aperture. A single short chimney pipe protrudes from the centre of the leaded canopy roof .... inner lighthouse commissioned by Trinity House with work commencing in 1862 and completion in 1863. Now situated on the beach immediately seaward of the modern sea defences, stands to a height of some 15m. It is supported on an arrangement of six tubular iron legs, cross braced and tied, which account for nearly two thirds of the overall height. The lighthouse structure above rests on a platform of iron joists reached by steps ascending through two flights and three landings around five sides of the tower's legs. In order to prevent unwanted access, the lower landing is gated and a ladder is required to reach from the first stage. The superstructure is divided into two storeys: the lightkeeper's chamber and the lamp room above. Both are hexagonal in plan to match the pattern of the legs; the lower room is faced with flat iron panels (painted black to match the frame) whilst the upper room clad in corrugated metal and painted white. The lightkeeper's chamber has rectangular, iron framed windows facing the shoreline to the south east and north east and a single glazed porthole facing to landward on the south west side. The lamp room is reached via an internal stair, and an external door in the south wall leads out to an encircling iron balcony. The lamp aperture takes up the entire seaward elevation. The windows are modern replacements, although they retain the angles of the three original frames (which are replicated in the roof line above). The roof itself is of a canopy design: lead covered with a central chimney pipe for the oil or gas lantern (long since removed) and a separate vent pipe for the heater in the lightkeeper's chamber. The chimney is surmounted by a weather vane which bears the date `1862' in stencil-cut numbers.'
This is part of the Volume: VF000191 Heritage Counts; within the Series: HEC01/029 Heritage Counts; within the Collection: HEC01 Historic England
© Historic England Archive
Photographer: Davies, James O: Historic England
Lighthouse, Causeway
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