Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268242
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
- Statutory Address:
- Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268242
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
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:
- Pendeen lighthouse and keepers' cottages with courtyard walls
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Just
- National Grid Reference:
- SW3789535893
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 31 May 2024 to amend details in the description and reformat the text to current standards
SW33NE
881-/3/10047
ST JUST
PENDEEN
Pendeen Lighthouse and Keeper Cottages with courtyard walls
GV
II
Lighthouse and four keepers' cottages. Completed 1900 and designed by Sir Thomas Matthews, the Trinity House Engineer-in-Chief between 1892 and 1915; constructed by Arther Carkeek of Redruth and lantern supplied by Messrs. Chance of Birmingham.
MATERIALS: Painted render over granite rubble, with flat concrete roof (designed to catch rainwater) and rendered stacks with cornices to cottages.
PLAN: Each L-plan house is joined to make a rectangular plan with rear wings; the yards to the rear are enclosed by stone walls with timber wicket gates adjoining outhouses; the lighthouse tower is connected by a lobby attached to the centre of the main (west) elevation.
EXTERIOR: Dwellings have raised plinths, flat-faced rustication to window and door surrounds and bold eaves band. Single-storey cottages with two-light transomed casements (some plastic replacements). Plank doors with overlights, and projecting porches to front and to left (north) and right (south) returns with single-light windows.
Lighthouse tower: 8.6 metres (28ft 6inches) in height from ground to gallery, 4.2 metres (14ft) diameter, framing 3 metre (10ft) clear height of glazing, standard diamond and half-diamond glazing panels, steel panels in blank arc. First-order lantern and murette on gallery; domed copper roof surmounted by ventilator and weather vane. Single-light windows, a very deep cornice surmounted by gallery walkway with iron balustrade.
INTERIOR: dwellings retain original joinery. Tower has granite stairway up to service room, original cast-iron weight tube in centre. Curved oak cupboard against wall, top section with glazed doors, lower section containing lead-lined sink. Slate steps up to lantern, housing a first-order 900mm focal length, eight-panel, dioptric asymmetrical optic. Mounted on Chance Brothers mercury-float pedestal. The original Argand lamp was replaced by an electric one in 1926. Part of an impressive group with the encircling walls and engine house (qqv). Built after Trinity House had become increasingly concerned about the treacherous waters around Pendeen Watch.
Listing NGR: SW3789535893
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462059
- 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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