LIGHT HOUSE

LIGHT HOUSE, WEST HILL RECREATION GROUND

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1043368
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: LIGHT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LIGHT HOUSE, WEST HILL RECREATION GROUND

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1043368
Date first listed:: 14-Sep-1976
List Entry Name:: LIGHT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LIGHT HOUSE, WEST HILL RECREATION GROUND

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LIGHT HOUSE, WEST HILL RECREATION GROUND

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

County:: East Sussex
District:: Hastings (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 82367 09716

Details

WEST HILL RECREATION GROUND 1. 5204 Light House TQ 8209 NW 7/553 II 2. Rebuilt 1851. Small lighthouse on hillside overlooking the sea and the Old Town. Stuccoed base, weatherboarded above. Quintagonal on plan. Tapered, with zinc-clad small hipped roof with ventilator at top. Facing seawards a 3-sided projecting window with oval lights and deep cill. Small window on opposite side. Doorway at base.

Listing NGR: TQ8236709716

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Legacy System number:: 294131
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.