Souter Point Lighthouse And Attached Buildings

NZ 46SW BOLDON MILL LANE Whitburn

4/55 Souter Point Lighthouse and attached buildings -

GV II*

Lighthouse, engine house, boilerhouse, workshops and houses. 1871 by Sir James N Douglas for Trinity House, London. Rendered; Welsh slate roofs. 4 ranges of buildings around a courtyard with the lighthouse connected to the east range. Lighthouse : 75-foot tapered tower with square window openings and at top south a window to allow a light to be seen for entrance to the Wear; overhanging walkway with iron railings around dome-topped lantern of iron. Engine house, boilerhouse and workshops : western one-storey range having central door and 3 windows all round-headed in raised surrounding arches with keystones, garage door and modern door inserted; raised quoins; moulded kneelers supporting painted gable coping; 2 painted square end chimneys. Houses : south, east and north 2-storey ranges each containing 2 houses with projecting square porches having 5-panelled doors in the return; 3 sash windows to each house front, 2 in each west gable joining the one-storey block; raised quoins;. roof with overhanging eaves is hipped, with 2 painted, corniced panelled chimneys to each ridge. A passage of one storey connects the lighthouse to the east range. Historical note : stands on Lizard Point, but to avoid confusion with Cornish Lizard Lighthouse named after Souter Point - next point south. The first lighthouse specifically constructed for electric illumination (carbon arc lamps), after experiments at Dungeness. Original bi-focal lens still in use. Source: D B Hague and R Christie Lighthouses : their architecture, history and archaeology (1975). Llandysul p.160.

Listing NGR: NZ4080764169