Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse

PAULL THORNGUMBALD ROAD TA 12 NE (south-west side, off)

3/12 Thorngumbald Clough Low Lighthouse

GV II Lighthouse. 1870 for Trinity House; later attached to base. Brick and flagstone base with iron rails carrying tower with rivetted wrought-iron frame, casing and balcony; painted white. Base rectangular on plan, approximately 2 metres high, with flagstone top carrying pair of rails on bolted brackets. Flight of wooden steps up to lighthouse door on south side. Lighthouse: tapered round tower, of 2 stages, approximately 10 metres high, with square concrete plinth fixing it to base. First stage has low door with strap hinges, projecting rectangular window above. Upper stage has angle struts supporting cast-iron balcony with plain railings, small - door with strap hinges, and small projecting square window above, large - projecting square window to north. Gutter, domed cap with cylindrical ventilator. An unusual and innovative design; the tower originally moved to establish a new line for approaching vessels to follow between Paull and The Hebbles. One of the series of Humber Estuary Lights which included lighthouses at Spurn Point, Easington parish (qv), and South Killingholme (qv) on the south bank. Together with the neighbouring High Lighthouse to the south (qv), and others at Salt End (now removed), it replaced the lighthouse at Town End Road, Paull (qv). Still in operation. D Jackson, Lighthouses of England and Wales, 1975, p l05.

Listing NGR: TA1713225056