Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Lighthouse, cottage.
Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pale-plaster-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Lighthouse, cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SW 83 SE 4/18
GERRANS Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage
II
Lighthouse and keepers cottage. 1834-35.
MATERIALS: Painted granite ashlar walls with paired chimneys to landward north-east side.
PLAN: Octagonal on plan with covered passage to two-room keepers' cottage to rear.
EXTERIOR: Four floors plus lantern. Built on bedrock with banded, rusticated ashlar to base and to flanking observations areas with original bollards and iron rails. Lighthouse tower slightly tapered. Windows to four sides with alternate 16-pane sashes, and blind windows. Moulded spray-deflecting cornice with original simple parapet balustrade, 12-light lantern surmounted by weather vane. Keepers' cottage is single storey with hipped slate roof and two sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Fog warning bell, Cornwall's heaviest, was removed in 1854.
Listing NGR: SW8460431149
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