SEATON HIGH LIGHT

SEATON HIGH LIGHT, JACKSON'S LANDING, THE HIGHLIGHT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263126
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: SEATON HIGH LIGHT
Statutory Address:: SEATON HIGH LIGHT, JACKSON'S LANDING, THE HIGHLIGHT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263126
Date first listed:: 17-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: SEATON HIGH LIGHT
Statutory Address 1:: SEATON HIGH LIGHT, JACKSON'S LANDING, THE HIGHLIGHT

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:: SEATON HIGH LIGHT, JACKSON'S LANDING, THE HIGHLIGHT

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

District:: Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ5152633235

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19/02/2014

NZ 5130 (NZ 513 307) 4/137

HARTLEPOOL, Jackson's Landing, The Highlight. Seaton High Light

(Formerly listed as Seaton High Light, in grounds of Vulcan Materials U.K. Ltd, WINDERMERE ROAD (off west side))

II

River navigation light tower; 1838, for the Tees Navigation Company. Formerly located at the Vulcan Materials UK Ltd site in Longhill but subsequently moved to its current location at the east end of Jackson's Landing. Magnesian limestone ashlar, internally lined with brick. Tuscan column on stepped pedestal with banded rustication and having cyma-recta-moulded plinth. Slit-lights within the coursing of masonry of column. Doorway in east face of pedestal, has architrave, keystone dated 1838 and ledged and battened door. Contains newel stair; and formerly supported a lantern now missing. Disused and dilapidated at time of listing survey (c.1985), but subsequently restored.

Listing NGR: NZ5152633235

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Legacy System number:: 433127
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.