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Latitude: 51.7113 / 51°42'40"N
Longitude: -5.1177 / 5°7'3"W
OS Eastings: 184710
OS Northings: 205998
OS Grid: SM847059
Mapcode National: GBR G4.G80J
Mapcode Global: VH1RX.77VY
Plus Code: 9C3PPV6J+GW
Entry Name: Leading light
Listing Date: 25 August 1998
Last Amended: 25 August 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20355
Building Class: Communications
Also known as: Great Castle Head Lighthouse
ID on this website: 300020355
Location: Situated on cliff-top at Great Castle Head some 1.5 km SSW of Sandy Haven, reached by long drive from Sandy Haven- St Ishmaels road.
County: Pembrokeshire
Town: Haverfordwest
Community: St. Ishmael's (Llanisan-yn-Rhos)
Community: St. Ishmael's
Locality: Saint Ishmaels
Traditional County: Pembrokeshire
Tagged with: Lighthouse
Tower built 1870 containing leading-light for navigation into Milford Haven, with two attached cottages. The leading light was a signal light that when lined up with a back-light some 50m behind gave the correct course. It was built by Messrs James & John, contractors, for Trinity House, and the cottages were flat-roofed for water-collection. The keeper lived in one, the assistant keeper in the other, now one house.
Leading-light tower with two cottages attached, now one house. Whitewashed stucco. Short front tower facing SW with heavy 2-step cornice and parapet, the parapet cut-down in front centre. Blocked opening in front wall. Single storey U-plan block behind with black-painted broad cornice-band and low blocking course. 2-window range each side of tower, 4-window sides. C20 plastic windows, some as secondary glazing in front of original 4-pane sashes, of which 2 survive on W side. Rear has 2 wings, 2-window to left, 3-window to right and door to each cottage in inward-facing walls. Flat roof has 2-chimneys to E and 3 to W.
A navigational structure of considerable rarity, part of the modernisation of the nationally-important Haven for naval purposes in the later C19.
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