TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE

TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346603
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address:: TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1346603
Date first listed:: 27-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT

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:: TOWER OF FORMER LOW LIGHTHOUSE, SPURN POINT

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District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Easington
National Park:: N/A
National Grid Reference:: TA 40189 11233

Details

EASINGTON SPURN POINT TA 41 SW 14/7 Tower of former Low Lighthouse GV II

Lighthouse tower. 1852 with later water tank. For Trinity House. Brick with ashlar facing. Tapered round tower with entrance to east. 4 storeys, surmounted by water tank. Stepped base approximately 4 metres high, short projecting timber platform to square-headed entrance with quoined surround, blocked windows with eared and shouldered surrounds, coved cornice. Cylindrical water tank surmounted by railings. The last of a series of Low Lights erected since the C17, (and as such a successor to the earliest lighthouses in the country), it was approached by a foot bridge from the peninsula. Superceded by the new Spurn Lighthouse (qv) and ceased operation in 1895. Subsequently used as explosives magazine and water tower. G de Boer, A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, East Yorkshire Local History Series No 24, 1968, pp 59, 64-6.

Listing NGR: TA4018911233

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Legacy System number:: 166548
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
De Boer, G, 'East Yorkshire History Series' in A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, , Vol. 24, (1968), 59 64-6

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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.