High Lighthouse
HIGH LIGHTHOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280598
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1964
- List Entry Name:
- High Lighthouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH LIGHTHOUSE, WEST STREET
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- IOE01/08271/28
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1280598
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1964
- List Entry Name:
- High Lighthouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH LIGHTHOUSE, WEST STREET
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:
- HIGH LIGHTHOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harwich
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 26116 32438
Details
HARWICH
TM2652SW WEST STREET 609-1/3/149 High Lighthouse 30/06/64
GV II*
Lighthouse, now disused. 1818. By Daniel Asher Alexander. For General Rebow. Contractor John Rennie the Elder. Of yellow stock bricks with stone dressings. Tall 9-sided tapering shaft with stone 'tent' roof with wide eaves overhang and lotus finial. EXTERIOR: tall cruciform plan chimneystack rises on NW from stone corbel. 3 adjoining faces to SE one recessed to form light opening. These 3 faces are organised to form symmetrical composition, in lower part, with projecting stone slab canopy surmounted by band of stone blind arches. Below this is a window and entrance door, on 'first floor' with stone surround and hood on consoles. Series of irregularly placed windows to internal staircase with small pane double-hung sashes, moulded hoods and stone surrounds all with a slight 'Egyptian' flavour. Flight of stone stairs leads up to entrance and has wrought-iron handrail with forked balusters of serpentine profile. Stone slab at entrance is cantilevered. Similar but plainer door surround at ground level with pair of 3 flush panelled doors. Circular stone curb, formerly with railings, around base.
Listing NGR: TM2611632438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366663
- 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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