High Light (Lighthouse Attached To Rear Wing Of Number 8) is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1950. Lighthouse.
High Light (Lighthouse Attached To Rear Wing Of Number 8)
- WRENN ID
- brooding-spire-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1950
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BLYTH BATH TERRACE NZ 3181 SE (back lane) 12/30 High Light (lighthouse attached 28.7.50 to rear wing of No.8) (formerly listed as High GV II Lighthouse) Lighthouse, 1780-90, heightened twice in later C19/early C20. C18 part squared stone, upper parts brick, colour-washed. Slightly-tapered circular tower. Lower part in 4 stages, divided by bands. Doorway on north, within small added porch; quatrefoil or cross loops, some blocked, to cardinal points. Upper part with 2 bands on moulded corbels, 2 windows to south. Flat roof has railing with knobbed spiral standards.
Interior: C18 part has stone newel stair; ladders in top section.
The lighthouse was worked in conjunction with the Low Light (rebuilt 1936) until 1985, when it was superseded by modern navigation aids on a different alignment and repainted mushroom instead of white.
Listing NGR: NZ3198081346
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