THE SOUTH LOOKOUT

THE SOUTH LOOKOUT, CRAG PATH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269772
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: THE SOUTH LOOKOUT
Statutory Address:: THE SOUTH LOOKOUT, CRAG PATH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269772
Date first listed:: 16-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: THE SOUTH LOOKOUT
Statutory Address 1:: THE SOUTH LOOKOUT, CRAG PATH

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:: THE SOUTH LOOKOUT, CRAG PATH

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Aldeburgh
National Grid Reference:: TM 46516 56371

Details

ALDEBURGH

TM4656 CRAG PATH 837-1/4/9 (East side) 16/08/74 The South Lookout

GV II

Lookout tower. Mid C19. Rendered and colourwashed brick; slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3-storey square tower fitted with single-light casements at intervals. South side with cast-iron external winder staircase leading to plank door in top floor. Some minor decoration to west face in form of plaster brackets and aedicules. On east face, top floor has a cantilevered viewing gallery supporting C20 glazed porch. Pyramidal roof surmounted by weather vane in form of a wherry. Single-storey building at base. INTERIOR: not inspected. Lookout tower was built in competition with the North Lookout Tower (qv).

Listing NGR: TM4651656371

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Legacy System number:: 460441
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.