Lighthouse on Longstone
LIGHTHOUSE ON LONGSTONE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Lighthouse on Longstone
- Statutory Address:
- LIGHTHOUSE ON LONGSTONE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234462
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Lighthouse on Longstone
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIGHTHOUSE ON LONGSTONE
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:
- LIGHTHOUSE ON LONGSTONE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Sunderland
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 24591 38983
Details
NORTH SUNDERLAND LONGSTONE NU 23 NW Farne Islands 5/178 Lighthouse on Lighthouse on Longs tone 22/12/69 GV II Lighthouse and Keeper's cottage. 1826 by David Alexander for Trinity House, Newcastle, enlarged later C19 by Joseph Nelson. Ashlar and dressed stone, painted red and white. All the buildings are set on a tall, dressed-stone base, rounded in plan with a segment-headed doorway in alternating-block surround. The base has a bold, roll-moulded top. Tall, 5-storey circular tapering lighthouse with small, square openings in raised surrounds. Platform with iron railings below the light. The light has trellised glazing bars. Small domed roof. Lower rounded extension on east side for foghorn. To right a single-storey, 2-bay cottage, rounded at each end. Segment-headed 12-pane sashes. Door on left return. Roof hidden by parapet. Of great landscape value and famous for its association with Grace Darling (18l5-42) daughter of the keeper who with her father rescued five people from the wreck of the Forarshire in 1838.
Listing NGR: NU2459138983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 410375
- 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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