Latitude: 54.9705 / 54°58'13"N
Longitude: -1.3641 / 1°21'50"W
OS Eastings: 440807
OS Northings: 564169
OS Grid: NZ408641
Mapcode National: GBR LBXZ.G0
Mapcode Global: WHD50.0BQD
Plus Code: 9C6WXJCP+59
Entry Name: Souter Point Lighthouse and Attached Buildings
Listing Date: 26 February 1985
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1185593
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303715
Also known as: Souter Point Lighthouse And Attached Buildings 25877;
ID on this website: 101185593
Location: South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, SR6
County: South Tyneside
Electoral Ward/Division: Whitburn and Marsden
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Whitburn
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Lighthouse
NZ 46SW BOLDON MILL LANE Whitburn
4/55 Souter Point Lighthouse and attached buildings -
GV II*
Lighthouse, engine house, boilerhouse, workshops and houses. 1871 by Sir James N Douglas for Trinity House, London. Rendered; Welsh slate roofs. 4 ranges of buildings around a courtyard with the lighthouse connected to the east range. Lighthouse : 75-foot tapered tower with square window openings and at top south a window to allow a light to be seen for entrance to the Wear; overhanging walkway with iron railings around dome-topped lantern of iron. Engine house, boilerhouse and workshops : western one-storey range having central door and 3 windows all round-headed in raised surrounding arches with keystones, garage door and modern door inserted; raised quoins; moulded kneelers supporting painted gable coping; 2 painted square end chimneys. Houses : south, east and north 2-storey ranges each containing 2 houses with projecting square porches having 5-panelled doors in the return; 3 sash windows to each house front, 2 in each west gable joining the one-storey block; raised quoins;. roof with overhanging eaves is hipped, with 2 painted, corniced panelled chimneys to each ridge. A passage of one storey connects the lighthouse to the east range. Historical note : stands on Lizard Point, but to avoid confusion with Cornish Lizard Lighthouse named after Souter Point - next point south. The first lighthouse specifically constructed for electric illumination (carbon arc lamps), after experiments at Dungeness. Original bi-focal lens still in use. Source: D B Hague and R Christie Lighthouses : their architecture, history and archaeology (1975). Llandysul p.160.
Listing NGR: NZ4080764169
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