Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse
THORNGUMBALD CLOUGH LOW LIGHTHOUSE, THORNGUMBALD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083435
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- THORNGUMBALD CLOUGH LOW LIGHTHOUSE, THORNGUMBALD ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083435
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THORNGUMBALD CLOUGH LOW LIGHTHOUSE, THORNGUMBALD ROAD
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:
- THORNGUMBALD CLOUGH LOW LIGHTHOUSE, THORNGUMBALD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Paull
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 17132 25056
Details
PAULL THORNGUMBALD ROAD TA 12 NE (south-west side, off)
3/12 Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse
GV II Lighthouse. 1870 for Trinity House; later attached to base. Brick and flagstone base with iron rails carrying tower with rivetted wrought-iron frame, casing and balcony; painted white. Base rectangular on plan, approximately 2 metres high, with flagstone top carrying pair of rails on bolted brackets. Flight of wooden steps up to lighthouse door on south side. Lighthouse: tapered round tower, of 2 stages, approximately 10 metres high, with square concrete plinth fixing it to base. First stage has low door with strap hinges, projecting rectangular window above. Upper stage has angle struts supporting cast-iron balcony with plain railings, small - door with strap hinges, and small projecting square window above, large - projecting square window to north. Gutter, domed cap with cylindrical ventilator. An unusual and innovative design; the tower originally moved to establish a new line for approaching vessels to follow between Paull and The Hebbles. One of the series of Humber Estuary Lights which included lighthouses at Spurn Point, Easington parish (qv), and South Killingholme (qv) on the south bank. Together with the neighbouring High Lighthouse to the south (qv), and others at Salt End (now removed), it replaced the lighthouse at Town End Road, Paull (qv). Still in operation. D Jackson, Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1975, p l05.
Listing NGR: TA1713225056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166658
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, D, Lighthouses of England and Wales, (1975), 105
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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