Description

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NZ 5130 (NZ 513 307)
4/137

HARTLEPOOL,
Jackson's Landing, The Highlight.
Seaton High Light

(Formerly listed as Seaton High Light, in grounds of Vulcan Materials U.K. Ltd, WINDERMERE ROAD (off west side))

II

River navigation light tower; 1838, for the Tees Navigation Company. Formerly located at the Vulcan Materials UK Ltd site in Longhill but subsequently moved to its current location at the east end of Jackson's Landing. Magnesian limestone ashlar, internally lined with brick. Tuscan column on stepped pedestal with banded rustication and having cyma-recta-moulded plinth. Slit-lights within the coursing of masonry of column. Doorway in east face of pedestal, has architrave, keystone dated 1838 and ledged and battened door. Contains newel stair; and formerly supported a lantern now missing. Disused and dilapidated at time of listing survey (c.1985), but subsequently restored.

Listing NGR: NZ5152633235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553936

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990