The Lighthouse

THE LIGHTHOUSE, STRADBROKE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384444
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1971
List Entry Name:
The Lighthouse
Statutory Address:
THE LIGHTHOUSE, STRADBROKE ROAD
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1384444
Date first listed:
22-Nov-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:
The Lighthouse
Statutory Address 1:
THE LIGHTHOUSE, STRADBROKE ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE LIGHTHOUSE, STRADBROKE ROAD

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Southwold
National Grid Reference:
TM 50942 76284

Details

SOUTHWOLD

TM5076 STRADBROKE ROAD
588-1/7/131 (East side)
22/11/71 The Lighthouse
(Formerly Listed as:
The Lighthouse)

II

Lighthouse. 1892. Rendered and whitewashed brick; outbuilding
has slate roof.
EXTERIOR: tapering tower with single-storey outbuilding
attached to rear. Entrance in outbuilding. Tower has 2-light
casements at intervals, those to the top floor with canted top
lights. Top stage has moulded cornice below railed balcony and
lantern stage: glazed circular lantern. On tower front are the
Arms of the Corporation of Trinity House.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Jenkins AB: A Hundred Years of Southwold in Photographs:
Southwold: 1983-: 62; Buildings of England: Pevsner N &
Radcliffe E: Buildings of England: Suffolk, 2nd Edition:
Harmondsworth: 1974-: 434).

Listing NGR: TM5094276284

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
484878
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jenkins, A B, A Hundred Years of Southwold in Photographs, (1983)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 434

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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