Upper Lighthouse Or Pharos
UPPER LIGHTHOUSE OR PHAROS, PHAROS PLACE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072397
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Lighthouse Or Pharos
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER LIGHTHOUSE OR PHAROS, PHAROS PLACE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072397
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Lighthouse Or Pharos
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER LIGHTHOUSE OR PHAROS, PHAROS PLACE
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:
- UPPER LIGHTHOUSE OR PHAROS, PHAROS PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Wyre (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fleetwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 33937 48289
Details
1. 5299 PHAROS PLACE Upper Lighthouse or Pharos SD 3348 2/4
II
2. 1836-40. Opened in 1840 (Preston Chronicle and Railway Magazine) and almost certainly designed by Decimus Burton. Cost £1,770. Ashlar. Red sandstone. Rusticated and vermiculated base, square in plan, battered, with clasping buttresses and moulded cornice. Door with "Egyptian" surround. Cylindrical stem with moulded base, 4 unmoulded round-arched windows and 4 oculi at top. Balcony on console- shaped brackets with cast iron balustrade. Summit octagonal with moulded cornice on console-shaped brackets, door with unmoulded surround and marginal glazing bars, planked opening on West side.
Listing NGR: SD3393748289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184764
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Preston Chronicle and Railway Magazine in Preston Chronicle and Railway Magazine, ()
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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