Souter Point Lighthouse and Attached Buildings
SOUTER POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185593
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Souter Point Lighthouse and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTER POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, MILL LANE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185593
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Souter Point Lighthouse and Attached Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTER POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, MILL LANE
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:
- SOUTER POINT LIGHTHOUSE AND ATTACHED BUILDINGS, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 40807 64169
Details
NZ 46SW BOLDON MILL LANE Whitburn
4/55 Souter Point Lighthouse and attached buildings -
GV II*
Lighthouse, engine house, boilerhouse, workshops and houses. 1871 by Sir James N Douglas for Trinity House, London. Rendered; Welsh slate roofs. 4 ranges of buildings around a courtyard with the lighthouse connected to the east range. Lighthouse : 75-foot tapered tower with square window openings and at top south a window to allow a light to be seen for entrance to the Wear; overhanging walkway with iron railings around dome-topped lantern of iron. Engine house, boilerhouse and workshops : western one-storey range having central door and 3 windows all round-headed in raised surrounding arches with keystones, garage door and modern door inserted; raised quoins; moulded kneelers supporting painted gable coping; 2 painted square end chimneys. Houses : south, east and north 2-storey ranges each containing 2 houses with projecting square porches having 5-panelled doors in the return; 3 sash windows to each house front, 2 in each west gable joining the one-storey block; raised quoins;. roof with overhanging eaves is hipped, with 2 painted, corniced panelled chimneys to each ridge. A passage of one storey connects the lighthouse to the east range. Historical note : stands on Lizard Point, but to avoid confusion with Cornish Lizard Lighthouse named after Souter Point - next point south. The first lighthouse specifically constructed for electric illumination (carbon arc lamps), after experiments at Dungeness. Original bi-focal lens still in use. Source: D B Hague and R Christie Lighthouses : their architecture, history and archaeology (1975). Llandysul p.160.
Listing NGR: NZ4080764169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 303715
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975), 160
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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