Belle Tout Lighthouse

Belle Tout Lighthouse, Beachy Head, Eastbourne

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1353108
Date first listed:: 27-May-1949
List Entry Name:: Belle Tout Lighthouse
Statutory Address:: Belle Tout Lighthouse, Beachy Head, Eastbourne

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1353108
Date first listed:: 27-May-1949
List Entry Name:: Belle Tout Lighthouse
Statutory Address 1:: Belle Tout Lighthouse, Beachy Head, Eastbourne

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:: Belle Tout Lighthouse, Beachy Head, Eastbourne

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Eastbourne (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: TV5636095518

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21 February 2022 to reformat the text to current standards

TV 59 NE 12/45 27.5.49

Beachy Head Belle Tout Lighthouse

II

Built by Stevenson in 1831 of Aberdeen granite. Disused as a lighthouse since the modern one was built below the cliff in 1902. A house was built onto the north side of the lighthouse before the last war and used as an artillery target when the house was reduced to ruins, but the lighthouse to the south is still more or less intact except for the top storey above the platform which actually housed the lantern.

Listing NGR: TV5636095518

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Legacy System number:: 293528
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.