Lloyds Signal Station
LLOYDS SIGNAL STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158037
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lloyds Signal Station
- Statutory Address:
- LLOYDS SIGNAL STATION
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1158037
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lloyds Signal Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- LLOYDS SIGNAL STATION
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:
- LLOYDS SIGNAL STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Landewednack
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 71481 11934
Details
LANDEWEDNACK BASS POINT SW 71 SW 9/57 Lloyds Signal Station II Signal station, now dwelling. 1872. Erected and opened by Messrs Fox of Falmouth. Masonry with white masonry paint covering. Almost square in plan with canted bay to south-east. 2 1/2 storeys with rectangular window openings, fenestration now altered. Windows generally asymmetrical with 3 windows on ground floor on south- west side. C20 porch and 3 windows on north-west side and 2 storeys of 3 rectangular windows in the projecting bay to the south-east with a ground and first floor window on the left. 5 small rectangular lookout windows are placed below the battlements of the bay looking seaward. Flat roof behind the battlements. The timber signal pole has been reduced in height. Of the 4 rooms on the ground floor 2 were occupied by the Direct Spanish Telegraph Company, 1 by the Lizard Signal Company and 1 a waiting room. Telegraph office above. On the flat roof a signalman watched through the 5 small windows. Communication between the office and vessels was made by semaphore. Outward- and homeward-bound ships reported their name and other information. The particulars were then passed to the telegraph room below and sent to the ships' owners and to daily papers. This removed the necessity for ships to call at Falmouth as they could receive orders from The Lizard. More than 1,000 ships per month used The Lizard Station by 1877. Interior not inspected. Sources: S Pascoe, On the Cornish Coast, 1877. C A Johns, A Week at The Lizard, 3rd Edition
Listing NGR: SW7148111934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64637
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Johns, CA, A Week at the Lizard, ()
Pascoe, S, On the Cornish Coast, (1877)
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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