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Latitude: 51.9445 / 51°56'40"N
Longitude: 1.2886 / 1°17'18"E
OS Eastings: 626116
OS Northings: 232438
OS Grid: TM261324
Mapcode National: GBR VQR.2LY
Mapcode Global: VHLCG.9D27
Plus Code: 9F33W7VQ+QC
Entry Name: High Lighthouse
Listing Date: 30 June 1964
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1280598
English Heritage Legacy ID: 366663
Also known as: Harwich High Light
Harwich Range Rear
ID on this website: 101280598
Location: Bath Side, Tendring, Essex, CO12
County: Essex
District: Tendring
Civil Parish: Harwich
Built-Up Area: Harwich
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: The Harwich Peninsula
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Lighthouse
HARWICH
TM2652SW WEST STREET
609-1/3/149 High Lighthouse
30/06/64
GV II*
Lighthouse, now disused. 1818. By Daniel Asher Alexander. For
General Rebow. Contractor John Rennie the Elder. Of yellow
stock bricks with stone dressings. Tall 9-sided tapering shaft
with stone 'tent' roof with wide eaves overhang and lotus
finial.
EXTERIOR: tall cruciform plan chimneystack rises on NW from
stone corbel. 3 adjoining faces to SE one recessed to form
light opening. These 3 faces are organised to form symmetrical
composition, in lower part, with projecting stone slab canopy
surmounted by band of stone blind arches. Below this is a
window and entrance door, on 'first floor' with stone surround
and hood on consoles. Series of irregularly placed windows to
internal staircase with small pane double-hung sashes, moulded
hoods and stone surrounds all with a slight 'Egyptian'
flavour. Flight of stone stairs leads up to entrance and has
wrought-iron handrail with forked balusters of serpentine
profile. Stone slab at entrance is cantilevered. Similar but
plainer door surround at ground level with pair of 3 flush
panelled doors. Circular stone curb, formerly with railings,
around base.
Listing NGR: TM2611632438
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