Whitby High Light
WHITBY HIGH LIGHT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316184
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whitby High Light
- Statutory Address:
- WHITBY HIGH LIGHT
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- 2002-04-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/06524/10
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316184
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Whitby High Light
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITBY HIGH LIGHT
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:
- WHITBY HIGH LIGHT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 92883 10093
Details
HAWSKER-CUM-STAINSACRE LING HILL NZ 91 SW 1/149 Whitby High Light - II Lighthouse and attached keepers' cottages. 1857-58; cottages extended in C20. By James Walker for Trinity House. Red brick, rendered and painted white; green-painted chamfered plinth and dressings. Painted corrugated iron lantern with painted iron gallery. Brass fittings. Slate roofs to cottages. Landward front: 1-stage octagonal tower with basement and lantern, flanked by linking bays to 1-storey, 2-window cottage fronts. Tower has 2-light window recessed in deeply splayed opening in lower stage. Above, a relief moulding of Trinity House arms. Gallery of horizontal railings and square-section standards with bulb and mushroom finials,on shaped corbels, encircles tower at lantern level. Lantern surmounted by conical cap, finial and weathervane. Linking bays have 4-panel doors beneath bracketed flat hoods. Cottage fronts have 4-pane sashes with painted sills. Cottage roofs are pyramidal with conjoined stacks at apex. Interior of tower. Basement (formerly oilroom) fitted with curved staging and furniture. Ground floor (formerly service room) has fitted furniture and contains encased clock weights for occulting mechanism in lantern. Lantern retains gallery and stairs with foliate brackets and standards respectively. Outer-door handle is traditional grasping hand. Replacement catadioptric lens of 1890 still in use, and the occulting mechanism of same date survives as back-up system to present light. Cottage extensions and peripheral buildings not of special interest. D.B.Hague and R.Christie, Lighthouses: Their Architecture, History and Archaeology. D.Jackson, Lighthouses of England and Wales. Trinity House leaflet, Whitby.
Listing NGR: NZ9288310093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327625
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975)
Jackson, D, Lighthouses of England and Wales, (1975)
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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