The Old Lighthouse And Adjoining Keepers' Houses

The Old Lighthouse and adjoining keepers' houses is a lighthouse of 1836, designed by Francis Dales for Trinity House, along with later 19th-century keepers' houses. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick, with Welsh slate roofs to the houses. It is situated on Paull Town End Road, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The lighthouse is a three-storey, tapered round tower with a single-room house attached to its south side, and an entrance annexe and two-room house attached to the east. A three-storey, single-bay house faces the riverbank, while a single-storey annexe and a two-storey, two-bay house sit alongside Town End Road. The tower features recessed 12-pane sliding sashes on the ground and first floors, with projecting sills. A plaque on the first floor bears the inscription “THIS LIGHTHOUSE WAS BUILT 1836 BY THE TRINITY HOUSE OF KINGSTON UPON HULL WILLIAM COLLINSON) WARDEN GEORGE HALL )”. The top floor has a plain balcony with flagstones and plain wrought-iron railings, a recessed four-panel door, and a wide, 24-pane window facing west. A plain dome tops the tower with a cylindrical ventilator. The adjoining range to the right has a plinth, single 16-pane sashes on each floor with sills, stepped eaves, a bracketed wooden gutter, and a chimney stack. A straight joint separates it from Nos 1-3 Anson Villas, which are not part of the listed building. The range to the left incorporates an annexe with steps, railings, a panelled door, and a 12-pane casement; the house has 12-pane ground-floor sashes in chamfered reveals with projecting moulded sills, and half dormers with unequal 9-pane sashes. The roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers, ridged coping with moulded octagonal finials, and exposed moulded rafter ends. A central ridge stack features four diagonal shafts with stepped cornices and square pots.

Internally, the tower’s ground floor has a blocked door to the south range and an inserted 19th-century staircase leading to the original flagged first floor, which contains a former entrance hatch. A hatch leads to the lantern chamber, which has a wrought-iron balustrade with plain bars and fluted principals, and wrought-iron ribs to the dome.

The lighthouse was part of a series of Humber Estuary lights, alongside those at Spurn Point, Easington, and South Killingholme, where Dales also designed South Low Light. It ceased operation in 1870, replaced by lights at Thorngumbald Clough and Salt End.