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
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Lighthouse, cottage
- Address
- Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage, Gerrans
- OS grid reference
- SW 846 311
- Coordinates
- 50.14119, -5.0159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage is a lighthouse and keepers' cottage built between 1834 and 1835. The structure features painted granite ashlar walls and has paired chimneys on the landward northeast side.
The lighthouse is octagonal in shape and includes a covered passage leading to a two-room keepers' cottage at the rear. It stands four floors high, plus a lantern, and is constructed on bedrock. The base and flanking observation areas are finished with banded, rusticated ashlar, and it retains original bollards and iron rails. The lighthouse tower is slightly tapered and has windows on all four sides, featuring alternating 16-pane sashes and some blind windows. A moulded spray-deflecting cornice crowns the building, topped by a simple parapet balustrade and a 12-light lantern with a weather vane. The keepers' cottage is a single storey with a hipped slate roof and two sash windows.
The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted that the fog warning bell, which was the heaviest in Cornwall, was removed in 1854.
Local climate
Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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