Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136282
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage
Statutory Address:: Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136282
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage

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District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Gerrans
National Grid Reference:: SW 84604 31149

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This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 30 May 2024 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards

SW 83 SE 4/18

GERRANS Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage

II

Lighthouse and keepers cottage. 1834-35.

MATERIALS: Painted granite ashlar walls with paired chimneys to landward north-east side.

PLAN: Octagonal on plan with covered passage to two-room keepers' cottage to rear.

EXTERIOR: Four floors plus lantern. Built on bedrock with banded, rusticated ashlar to base and to flanking observations areas with original bollards and iron rails. Lighthouse tower slightly tapered. Windows to four sides with alternate 16-pane sashes, and blind windows. Moulded spray-deflecting cornice with original simple parapet balustrade, 12-light lantern surmounted by weather vane. Keepers' cottage is single storey with hipped slate roof and two sashes.

INTERIOR: not inspected. Fog warning bell, Cornwall's heaviest, was removed in 1854.

Listing NGR: SW8460431149

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Legacy System number:: 62983
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.