Godrevy Lighthouse, including Keepers' cottages, store front courtyard walls and perimeter walls

Godrevy Lighthouse, along with the keepers' cottages, store, front courtyard wall, and perimeter walls, was built in 1859 and designed by James Walker. The lighthouse features painted stucco over rubble, while the cottages are made of slurried rubble, with one cottage having a grouted slate roof.

The lighthouse has an octagonal plan and stands five floors tall, plus a lantern. It has four small windows on each floor, arranged on alternate faces, resulting in either three or two windows per face. There is a moulded cornice at the walkway, with iron railings outside the lantern. The roof is conical with braced glazing, topped with a finial and a weather vane.

The interior was not inspected. The cottages are small, rectangular, and single-storey. The cottage closest to the lighthouse is roofless, with one gable end collapsed, while the other cottage has coped gable ends. Behind the lighthouse is a large store with a mono-pitch roof. The lighthouse is situated on a level platform with walls on the sides, and another wall encloses an oval-shaped 'garden' with three entrances accessed by steps leading to alternative landing sites, which are all potentially very hazardous.

Historically, this area saw many shipwrecks before the lighthouse was constructed, including the iron-screw steamer NILE, which was lost on September 30, 1854, with all passengers and crew. Godrevy Lighthouse, located on Godrevy Island off Godrevy Point, is believed to have inspired Virginia Woolf's novel "To The Lighthouse," published in 1927. The lighthouse was manned until September 7, 1934, when it became automatically activated by a 'Sun Valve' on the lantern roof. Since then, the keepers' cottages have fallen into neglect.