ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE

ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070066
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1070066
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ST MARGARET'S OLD LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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

County:: Kent
District:: Dover (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Margaret's At Cliffe
National Grid Reference:: TR 36255 43384

Details

TR 34 SE ST MARGARET'S AT CLIFFE THE FRONT (south Foreland) 6/57 St. Margaret's 22.8.66 Old Lighthouse

GV II

Lighthouse. Built 1795, rebuilt 1843. Red brick rendered with Roman cement, with cast iron lantern. Octagonal plan. Two storeys, with machicolated battlements. Lantern with latticed windows. Two four centred arched doorways, with entrance porch missing, one leading to basement, that to right to main stair, with niche between. Interior: staircase winds inside main chamber, with cast iron floors, the walls originally panelled and surviving in part. Cast iron lantern, the light originally floated on a bed of mercury to maintain balance. Glazing lost. The single storey outbuilding described in previous survey has fallen victim to the receding cliffline. Sold by Trinity House with the establishment of the Goodwin Lightship.

Listing NGR: TR3591143305

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 178496
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.