Description

COUNTISBURY FORELAND POINT SS 75 Sll 2/33 Foreland Point Lighthouse and - adjoining retaining walls - II Lighthouse and adjoining retaining walls. 1900, with some mid - to - late alterations. Cement rendered, lined as ashlar, possibly over rubble. 2-span hipped Welsh-slate roof over domestic range and painted metal fittings to tower. Painted rubble retaining walls with rounded copings and granite steps. Plan: sited on the steep slope of the headland (Foreland Point); consisting of a terrace with retaining walls and flanking flights of steps and domestic range with covered staircase link down the slope to the circular tower on the north (seaward) side of the site. Tower of 2 stages and domestic range of one storey with basement. Exterior: lower stage of tower with plinth and frieze, small-headed wooden casements to each side with raised quoined surrounds, and C20 flat-roofed addition to seaward side housing fog signal equipment. Light-stage with projecting railed walkway, lattice metal glazing bars (metal panels screening each diamond light on landward side), domed metal roof with handrail and low domed cylindrical cap with gilded weathervane. Linking corridor to domestic range with frieze and cornice bands, and blocking course; each has side small wooden casements with quoined surrounds, flanking central entrance. Domestic range with raised quoins, string course between basement and ground floor to north, architrave and frieze barrels and 3 axial brick stacks to each ridge. 3:3:3 bays; wooden cross windows with raised quoined surrounds. Three-bay end elevations with wooden cross and central boarded doorways, all with raised quoined surrounds. Interior: of tower; largely unaltered since 1900, but converted to electricity in 1975. Lamp resting on mercury bath supported on 6 cast-iron columns. Lamp flushes 4 turns per second. Ground-floor with central weight tuke (formerly containing weights for winding system used prior to introduction of electricity), and curved wooden glazed cupboard with lead-lined sink in base. Cast-iron staircase with brass handrail. Brass fittings throughout. Plaque inscribed: "THIS LIGHTHOUSE/WAS ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HOUSE/IN THE YEAR 1900./CAPTAIN H.R.H. THE DUKE OF YORK R.N. MASTER/CAPTAIN GEORGE RAWLINSON VYVYAN, DEPUTY MASTER:/T. MATHEWS, ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF". Interior of domestic range not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7538951096

External Links

• Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15243200

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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