Lundy South Lighthouse Including Engine House and Accommodation Block
LUNDY SOUTH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ENGINE HOUSE AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326625
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lundy South Lighthouse Including Engine House and Accommodation Block
- Statutory Address:
- LUNDY SOUTH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ENGINE HOUSE AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326625
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Lundy South Lighthouse Including Engine House and Accommodation Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUNDY SOUTH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ENGINE HOUSE AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK
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:
- LUNDY SOUTH LIGHTHOUSE INCLUDING ENGINE HOUSE AND ACCOMMODATION BLOCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 14399 43665
Details
SS14SW
1938-0/2/3
LUNDY
Lundy South Lighthouse including engine house and accommodation block.
II
Lighthouse.1897 for Trinity House. Granite, rendered and blocked out. Flat roof behind parapets. Circular tower with single storey square engine room attached on southeast side and covered passage on northwest side leading to rectangular plan single storey accommodation block on higher ground level.
Exterior: Squat slight tapered round tower with small windows and large cornice with cast-iron balustrade and large lattice-glazed lantern with weathervane on top of cylindrical ventilator. Attached to the southeast side of the tower is the later single storey engine room. On the northwest side a covered passage ramps up to the accommodation block on higher ground level. The passage and accommodation block have stepped cornice and blocking course concealing flat roof. Sash windows with glazing bars and plank doors.
Interior: not inspected.
Note: The South and Lundy North Lighthouses (qv) were built when the Old Lighthouse (qv) was abandoned in 1897, because it was often obscured by fog, being so high above sea level. The 52ft tower stands only 175ft above sea level. Some of the equipment from the Old Lighthouse was dismantled and reused in the South Lighthouse, but it was all replaced in 1962.
(Lighthouses, Their Architecture, History and Archaeology: D.B. Hague and R. Christie; Lundy: A and M Langham).
Listing NGR: SS1439943665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hague, B, Christie, R, Lighthouses their Architecture History and Archaeology, (1975)
Langham, A, Langham, M, Lundy, (1970)
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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