THE LIGHTHOUSE

THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE HARBOUR (SOUTH PIER)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144649
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: THE LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE HARBOUR (SOUTH PIER)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1144649
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:: THE LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE HARBOUR (SOUTH PIER)

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:: THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE HARBOUR (SOUTH PIER)

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maryport
National Grid Reference:: NY 02985 36811

Details

The following entry shall be added

MARYPORT THE HARBOUR 1. 5161 (South Pier) ------------ The Lighthouse NY 03 NW 3/150 II

2. Circa 1846. Probably the oldest cast iron lighthouse in Britain. Disused. About 36 feet high. On tall plinth of russicated stone with a flattened Tudor arched panel in each face (one open) and a cornice; the latter supports an octagonal column with stepped splayed base, crowned by an octagonal lantern with flat capping, finial and vane. Included mainly for historic interest, as the precursor of a lighthouse type.

Listing NGR: NY0298536811

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Legacy System number:: 71863
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.