HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE

HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE, YARMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209999
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE, YARMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1209999
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1949
List Entry Name:: HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE, YARMOUTH ROAD

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:: HIGH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING NORTH COTTAGE AND SOUTH COTTAGE, YARMOUTH ROAD

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Lowestoft
National Grid Reference:: TM 55088 94308

Details

LOWESTOFT

TM5594SW YARMOUTH ROAD 914-1/6/88 (East side) 13/12/49 High Lighthouse including North Cottage and South Cottage

II

Formerly known as: High Lighthouse HIGH STREET. Lighthouse and keepers' house, now an automatic lighthouse and 2 houses: North Cottage and South Cottage. The first light on the site was 1676, re-built 1853, with keepers' house to the west essentially a single-storey version of the present keepers' house. The whole re-built 1873. Stuccoed brick. Slate roofs. 2 storeys. A central 3-bay hipped block is flanked by gabled ranges right and left receding east to enclose the circular lighthouse tower itself. The main block and the side wings are separated by thin recessed bays on the facade. The central block has a small central pediment above a blind ground-floor window and the coat-of-arms of Trinity House to the first floor. Either side are one 8/8 sash to each floor in recessed segmental panels. Modillion eaves cornice below hipped roof. The narrow bays right and left have C20 doors below 4/4 sashes. The gable ends of the flanking wings are pierced by one 6/6 sash each floor, set in recessed segmental panels. Gabled roofs with modillion cornices. The central block has 2 tarred stacks on the rear roof slope and the side wings also have 2 tarred side stacks above the return walls. These returns are lit through one central 4/4 sash each floor. The east gables of the side wings also have one 6/6 sash each floor in recessed segmental panels. The lighthouse tower is of 3 storeys: circular, with a gallery at the lantern stage; glazed lantern surmounted by a weather-vane.

Listing NGR: TM5508894308

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Legacy System number:: 391372
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.