South Gare Lighthouse
SOUTH GARE LIGHTHOUSE, TOD POINT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140391
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1990
- List Entry Name:
- South Gare Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH GARE LIGHTHOUSE, TOD POINT ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140391
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- South Gare Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH GARE LIGHTHOUSE, TOD POINT 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:
- SOUTH GARE LIGHTHOUSE, TOD POINT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 55756 28374
Details
The following item shall be added:-
REDCAR OFF TOD POINT ROAD NZ 52 NE 1/126 South Gare Lighthouse
The address shall be amended to read: NZ 52 NE REDCAR TOD POINT ROAD (off north side) 1/126 South Gare Lighthouse II
and the description shall be amended to read:
Lighthouse, 1884 under direction of John Fowler, engineer to Tees Conservancy Commissioners. Cast iron with copper dome and brass and glass lantern-housing 18m. above sea at low water. Truncated Tuscan column on pedestal lacking plinth or cornice but with chamfered top edge. Column capped with octagonal lantern housing under narrow cornice and hemispherical dome from which chimney and weather vane were removed c1980. Hooded lifebuoy housings flank steel-plated 2-panel timber door in south face of pedestal. Small portholes in north and south faces of column light the staircase. Below the lantern a railed catwalk or balcony supported by cusped brackets. INTERIOR: clad with varnish stained, vertical tongued-and- grooved timber wainscotting. Wood and iron newel stair with patterned brass tread nosings and handrail. Original paraffin lamp removed 1955. Now a mains electricity-powered heliophotal lamp comprising two 1,000 watt bulbs (one on standby). Auxiliary generator on standby. Lamp magnified to 92,000 watts by original glass lenses in rotating brass housing driven by hand- wound escapement, now replaced by electric motors. Lamp produces flash of 1.5 seconds every 12 seconds, having range of 20 miles (32km.). The adjacent fog horn is not of interest. The only privately owned light house in England. The 2.5 mile (4km.) long South Gare Breakwater was constructed of ironworks, slag and concrete between 1861 and 1888 to create a safe harbour for shipping and to increase the draught of water for shipping in the estuary of the River Tees.
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REDCAR OFF TOD POINT ROAD NZ 52 NE 1/126 South Gare Lighthouse II
Lighthouse. 1883 . Stone with iron dressings. Single storey square base with single metal doorway on west side, flanked by single life belt housing. Above a circular shaft with a moulded base, and above a projecting iron balcony supported on ornate iron brackets.Topped by an octagonal light housing with a circular metal domed cap.
Listing NGR: NZ5575628374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60391
- 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.
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