Description

PORTLAND

SY67NE PORTLAND BILL ROAD, Portland Bill
969-1/1/162 (South side)
New Lighthouse with boundary walls

II

Lighthouse with coastguard accommodation. Opened January 11th
1906, (report in Weymouth Telegram, 12.01.06), built by
Wakeham Brothers of Plymouth, at cost of »13,000. Painted
render; flat roof to coastguard house assumed asphaltic. Lofty
(35m)tapered shaft to heavy moulded cornice carrying
cylindrical domed lantern set to balcony with cast-iron
balustrade in 12 bays; heavy moulded posts and three plain
rails. Various openings in five stages, deep-set 2-light
casements to cambered raised lintels and heavy stooled cills.
Trinity House badge set to south face; entrance door on NW
side. Single-storey link to flat-roofed coastguard house in
two storeys, 4 x 3 bays, mainly two light casements with
transom, to stooled cills. In second bay from south each side
a projecting square flat-roofed porch with part glazed doors;
entry also in low link adjoining tower. Single-storey wing
full width north end. All set to plinth, and with heavy
moulded cornice; four large stacks with heavy cappings set in
on flat roof.
Subsidiary Features: enclosed by rubble wall, painted
externally, half-cylindrical coping, c 1.5m high, with pairs
of square gate piers to heavy pyramidal cappings and wooden
gates on east and west facing link block. Similar walls
centrally back to house from each of four sides. Service
building in south east corner has cast-iron ventilator
grilles. This new lighthouse replaced the former Old Higher
and Old Lower Lighthouses (qqv). It is a complete group, and
an important complement historically to the two earlier
buildings.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:
1970-: 253).

Listing NGR: SY6773768376

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Portland Bill Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2753005

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