SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE

SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101512
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE, THE FRONT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101512
Date first listed:: 23-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: SOUTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH FORELAND 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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SOUTH FORELAND 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 35911 43305

Details

TR 34 SE ST MARGARET'S AT CLIFFE THE FRONT (south Foreland) 6/58 South Foreland Lighthouse

II

Lighthouse and outbuildings. Built 1793, rebuilt 1843. Rendered, with slate roofs. Irregular octagon with flanking wings. The tower is of 3 storeys on a plinth, with machicolations and battlemented parapet. Lantern with ball finial and weather vane. Single storey outbuildings with plinth and parapet and low hipped roof with 2 cast iron chimney pots. Projecting canted bay window on main facade, and projecting return wing both with pediment-shaped parapets and Trinity House emblems. Linked to tower by short wing with four centred arched doorway. Main entry to tower with pointed arch on attached shafts. With the first permanent electric lamp in the country (installed 1872, only the Lizard Light is more powerful on the south coast).

Listing NGR: TR3591143305

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Legacy System number:: 178497
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.