Walney Lighthouse With Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, SOUTH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218858
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Walney Lighthouse With Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, SOUTH END
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1218858
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Walney Lighthouse With Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, SOUTH END
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:
- WALNEY LIGHTHOUSE WITH TWO ATTACHED COTTAGES AND OUTBUILDINGS, SOUTH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 23019 62058
Details
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD26SW SOUTH END, Walney Island 708-1/8/278 Walney Lighthouse with two attached 06/05/76 cottages and outbuildings (Formerly Listed as: WALNEY ISLAND Walney Lighthouse, 2 lighthouse cottages, lighthouse storeroom)
II*
Lighthouse with attached pair of cottages and storeroom. 1790. For the Lancaster Quay Commissioners (Barnes); cottages altered C19. Lighthouse is dressed, painted stone; cottages stuccoed and with slate roofs. U-shaped group with octagonal lighthouse linking pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages and single-storey outbuilding; pebbled courtyard. Lighthouse: tapered and with slit windows; iron balcony around fully-glazed lantern housing, hipped roof with finial. Cottage to left has door in 1-storey link to lighthouse; two C20 six-pane casements to each floor. Cottage to right has gabled porch with door in left return and 6-pane sashes; the upper windows in half-dormers. Coped gables; end and central stacks. Outbuilding: 2 boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, monoclinal roof. Authorised by Act of Parliament in 1789. Built using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of »1,100. The lighthouse is of particular importance within the group. (Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91).
Listing NGR: SD2301962058
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barnes, F, Barrow and District, (1968), 91
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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