Low Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1964. A C19 Lighthouse, museum.
Low Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-cornice-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1964
- Type
- Lighthouse, museum
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Low Lighthouse in Harwich is a former lighthouse that has been converted into a maritime museum. It was built in 1818 by the architect John Rennie the Elder for General Rebow. The structure is made of yellow stock bricks with stone dressings that have been painted white. It features a tapering 10-sided shaft topped with a black painted stone 'tent' roof that has a cornice overhang and a lotus finial.
The lighthouse has three adjoining faces to the southeast and the back that originally housed light openings, but these are now covered with painted timber panels. There is a timber balcony that encircles the building, complete with a tubular metal handrail. The base has a low pitched felt roof, which is partially open on thin columns and partially enclosed in 20th-century painted brickwork. The small windows are adorned with prominent hoodmoulds. Although similar in detail to the High Lighthouse, its character has changed due to the painting of its cladding materials.
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