Engine House at Pendeen Lighthouse
ENGINE HOUSE AT PENDEEN LIGHTHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268243
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at Pendeen Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT PENDEEN LIGHTHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268243
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Engine House at Pendeen Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT PENDEEN LIGHTHOUSE
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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:
- ENGINE HOUSE AT PENDEEN LIGHTHOUSE
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:
- SW 37863 35901
Details
SW 33 NE
881/3/10049
12.03.97
ST JUST
PENDEEN
Engine House at Pendeen Lighthouse
GV
II
Engine House. 1900. Rendered rubble with flat roof (designed to cool water for air engines and compressors). Square plan. Single storey. East elevation (facing lighthouse) has one-light window to front and north-facing plank door with overlight; to right are plank double doors to main block. North and south returns have 2 2-light transomed timber windows, with upper lights canted back from face of wall; curved bay window to west elevation. The roof is surmounted by resonators of cast iron with copper bellmouths. INTERIOR: entrance lobby to interior, quarry-tiled floor with steel chequer plates covering pipe ducts, walls have white glazed tiles to windowsill height. Fixtures include the following: standby diesel generator by Petter; air receivers, actuating valves, reducing valve and 12-inch siren; the two signal compressor sets, with engines by Ruston Hornsby, are particularly significant examples. The engine house represents the only example in the country to have retained its 12" siren with associated machinery. Part of an impressive lighthouse group at Pendeen, with the encircling walls and lighthouse (qv).
Listing NGR: SW3786335901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462060
- 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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