Bidston Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cottages
BIDSTON LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTHOUSE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201617
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Bidston Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BIDSTON LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTHOUSE COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201617
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Bidston Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDSTON LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTHOUSE COTTAGES
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:
- BIDSTON LIGHTHOUSE AND LIGHTHOUSE COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 28673 89901
Details
SJ28NE
789-1/3/161
BIRKENHEAD
BIDSTON
Bidston Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cottages
(Formerly listed as Bidston Lighthouse and Lighthouse Cottage)
08/12/89
GV
II
Lighthouse with associated keepers' and hill warden's cottages. Built 1873 by the Mersey Dock Estate to guide ships into the Mersey estuary. It forms part of an extensive system of navigational aids along the North Wales coast. Rusticated ashlar; sheet metal roof to lighthouse, Welsh slate to the cottages. Lighthouse tower of 3 stages supporting recessed light-chamber under conical cap. Single- and paired sash windows to each stage; doorway (to west) surmounted by the title 'Mersey Dock Estate 1873' in medallion. Lowest stage battered. Upper walkway corbelled on consoles, with railings. Light chamber with modillion eaves cornice. Metal roof roundel finial. Single-storey cottage range attached to east, hipped roofs, paired sash windows, and rusticated stone stacks emerging from roof slopes. The cottages accommodated the families of the lighthouse keeper and the observatory groundsmen.
Listing NGR: SJ2867389901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389085
- 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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