Magazine and Privies About 15 Metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
MAGAZINE AND PRIVIES ABOUT 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF FOG SIGNAL BATTERY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326648
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Magazine and Privies About 15 Metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
- Statutory Address:
- MAGAZINE AND PRIVIES ABOUT 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF FOG SIGNAL BATTERY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326648
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Magazine and Privies About 15 Metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGAZINE AND PRIVIES ABOUT 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF FOG SIGNAL BATTERY
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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:
- MAGAZINE AND PRIVIES ABOUT 15 METRES NORTH EAST OF FOG SIGNAL BATTERY
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 12772 44892
Details
LUNDY
SS14SW BATTERY POINT 1938-0/2/11 Magazine and Privies about 15 metres North East of Fog Signal Battery
GV II
Magazine and attached privies serving fog signal battery. Circa 1861 for Trinity House. Dressed granite. Gabled roof, the privies now roofless, the magazine has barrel vaulted brick roof clad in slate. Overall rectangular plan. 2 attached privies on right (east) with wider (approx. square) integral magazine on left (west).
Exterior: 1 storey. 2 symmetrical gables at front (south) facing path down to Battery (qv). Under the right hand gable 2 privy doors, under the left hand gable a doorway to the magazine, all with granite lintels. The building is set on a bettered stone plinth on the cliff edge, its back facing the sea.
Interior: The W.C.s have been removed from the privies. The magazine is brick-lined, has a brick barrel-vaulted roof and a ventilation hole in the rear gable.
Note: The Old Lighthouse (qv) is situated at 470 feet above sea level and was often obscured by fog. In an attempt to solve the problem a fog signal battery (qv) was built in circa 1861 on cliffs below. The installation included cottages for the gunners (Battery Cottages qv) and this magazine and privies. In 1878 Trinity House substituted guncotton rockets for the guns and in 1881 it was even considered that the lower light of the Old Lighthouse should be moved to the Battery. Bells, hooters and whistles were also experimented with but The Old Lighthouse and Battery were eventually abandoned in 1897 when the North and South Lundy Lighthouses (qv) were built. (Lighthouses, their Architecture, History and Archaeology:D.B. Hague and R. Christie; LUNDY:A and M. Langham).
Listing NGR: SS1277244892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91988
- 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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