The North Foreland Lighthouse Including Attached Lighthouse Keepers Houses
THE NORTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS HOUSES, NORTH FORELAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222802
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The North Foreland Lighthouse Including Attached Lighthouse Keepers Houses
- Statutory Address:
- THE NORTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS HOUSES, NORTH FORELAND ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222802
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Mar-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The North Foreland Lighthouse Including Attached Lighthouse Keepers Houses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE NORTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS HOUSES, NORTH FORELAND ROAD
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:
- THE NORTH FORELAND LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS HOUSES, NORTH FORELAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadstairs and St. Peters
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 39859 69619
Details
TR 36 NE
874/5/31
24-JAN-50
BROADSTAIRS AND ST PETERS
NORTH FORELAND ROAD
BROADSTAIRS
(West side)
The North Foreland Lighthouse including attached lighthouse keepers houses
(Formerly listed as:
NORTH FORELAND ROAD
BROADSTAIRS
The North Foreland Lighthouse)
II
Lighthouse with two attached Lighthouse keepers houses. Lighthouse built in 1691 increased in height in 1793 and again at the end of the C19. Lighthouse keepers houses added c1860. Lighthouse comprises stuccoed octagonal tower of two stages, battered to base with moulded cornice at the top, moulded band half way up and plinth. The height of the tower is 57 metres. Circular lantern house above with platform round it added in 1890. Gabled porch with kneelers, slate roof and crest was probably added in the later C19. The Lighthouse is flanked by the two Lighthouse keeper's houses attached by one storey stuccoed windowless corridors. These are stuccoed with hipped slate roofs with clustered central brick chimneystacks with four flues each. Two storeys; three windows. Wide bracket eaves cornice. Casement windows with hoodmoulding and central gabled porches with kneelers and crest. The windows to the rear elevation are blank.
HISTORY: A light was first used at the North Foreland in 1499 but the first real lighthouse was built by Sir John Meldrum in 1636. This comprised a two storey structure of timber lath and plaster with an iron coal burning grate on top and was destroyed by fire in 1683. A twelve metres tall tower was built in 1691 constructed of brick, stone and flint, later rendered over. Originally coal-fired, the fire was enclosed in a glazed lantern in 1719 but this was removed in 1730 after complaints from shipping. In 1793 a further two storeys were added and the coal fire replaced by 18 oil lamps. Trinity House purchased the lighthouse in 1832. The lighthouse keepers cottages were in use from c1860 to 1995.
[Buildings of England. "North East and East Kent" p163.]
Listing NGR: TR3985969619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417974
- 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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