Outbuildings, Adjoining Garden Wall And Gateway At Withernsea Lighthouse

TA 32 NW 4/94

WITHERNSEA HULL ROAD (south side) Outbuildings, adjoining garden wall and gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse

GV II

Outbuildings, garden wall and gateway. 1892-3, probably by Sir James Douglass or Thomas Matthews for Trinity House. Outbuildings of stuccoed brick, incised in imitation of ashlar and whitewashed; Welsh slate roofs. Garden wall of red brick with painted ashlar dressings to piers. 3 single- storey outbuildings: 1) 2-bay store-house at south end of garden: pair of recessed 4-pane windows with sills to north front, 2-fold recessed board door and overlight to west side; moulded cornice, single-pitch roof with raised stone-coped verges, ornate shaped kneelers. 2) Single-bay outhouse to east side of garden: board door and C20 casement in original opening with sill to west front, similar cornice and single-pitch roof with coped verges and shaped kneelers. 3) 3-bay relief lighthouse keepers' flat to west side of garden: 12-pane casements to north front, board door to rear, cornice, pitched roof with similar coped gables and shaped kneelers; stack to rear. Coped garden wall, ramped-up to outbuildings. Central north gateway to street, with square- section coped piers, wooden gate, and flanking walls with smaller similar piers to recessed entrance to right. Included for group value. See item 4/93 for sources.

Listing NGR: TA3394827925