Former Station Building And Lighthouse, Stone Jetty

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM

SD4264 MARINE ROAD CENTRAL, Morecambe 939-1/5/41 (North side (off)) Former station building and lighthouse, stone jetty

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Former station and lighthouse, now used for fish storage. Station building early 1850s, with lighthouse added shortly afterwards. Coursed squared sandstone with slate roof. Single-storey station. On the north-east side, facing the jetty, the roof overhangs to form a canopy. The door and window openings have painted stone surrounds and the windows have external shutters. There are windows separating the 4 doors, with 2 further windows to the right and with paired window openings between the 1st and 2nd doors. Early photographs show the facade to be relatively unaltered, apart from the enlargement of window openings and removal of chimney caps. The left-hand gable wall, facing the land, has 2 window openings separated by a central mullion. The right-hand gable wall contains 2 doorways and 2 windows, all partly filled with masonry. The south-west wall, close to the edge of the jetty, contains 6 windows with stone surrounds. 2 with central mullions dividing them into 2 lights. Adjoining the west end, and linked to it by the handrail of the walkway, is a lighthouse with a square base broached to an octagonal tower of rock-faced sandstone. The walkway is treated as a moulded capital and carries iron railings. The lantern has a white-painted ogee cap with finial. During 1852 a goods warehouse and crane was erected on the jetty whose construction was legalised by the North Western Railway Act of 1852, and a steamer service was then operating to Peel and to the north of Ireland. (Baughan P E: The Midland Railway North of Leeds: 1987-: 293).

Listing NGR: SD4262464633