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Latitude: 54.0487 / 54°2'55"N
Longitude: -3.1772 / 3°10'38"W
OS Eastings: 323019
OS Northings: 462058
OS Grid: SD230620
Mapcode National: GBR 6P7M.YD
Mapcode Global: WH72X.5H9J
Plus Code: 9C6R2RXF+F4
Entry Name: Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
Listing Date: 6 May 1976
Last Amended: 20 December 1993
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1218858
English Heritage Legacy ID: 388601
ID on this website: 101218858
Location: Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA14
County: Cumbria
District: Barrow-in-Furness
Electoral Ward/Division: Walney South
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: St Mary the Virgin, Walney Island
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Lighthouse Architectural ensemble
BARROW IN FURNESS
SD26SW SOUTH END, Walney Island
708-1/8/278 Walney Lighthouse with two attached
06/05/76 cottages and outbuildings
(Formerly Listed as:
WALNEY ISLAND
Walney Lighthouse, 2 lighthouse
cottages, lighthouse storeroom)
II*
Lighthouse with attached pair of cottages and storeroom. 1790.
For the Lancaster Quay Commissioners (Barnes); cottages
altered C19. Lighthouse is dressed, painted stone; cottages
stuccoed and with slate roofs. U-shaped group with octagonal
lighthouse linking pair of 2-storey 2-window cottages and
single-storey outbuilding; pebbled courtyard. Lighthouse:
tapered and with slit windows; iron balcony around
fully-glazed lantern housing, hipped roof with finial. Cottage
to left has door in 1-storey link to lighthouse; two C20
six-pane casements to each floor. Cottage to right has gabled
porch with door in left return and 6-pane sashes; the upper
windows in half-dormers. Coped gables; end and central stacks.
Outbuilding: 2 boarded doors and two 12-pane casements,
monoclinal roof. Authorised by Act of Parliament in 1789.
Built using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of
ยป1,100. The lighthouse is of particular importance within the
group.
(Barnes F: Barrow and District: Barrow in Furness: 1968-: 91).
Listing NGR: SD2301962058
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