Lighthouse Keeper'S Cottage At Hurst Lighthouse And Attached Yard Wall

SZ 38 NW KEYHAVEN Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse 11/139 and attached Yard Wall

GV II

Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage and attached yard wall. Probably c1852 (as lighthouse, qv), for Trinity House. Brick below stucco scored as ashlar; coated Welsh slate roof. One storey, 3 x 2 bays with outshut and walled yard on left side. Chamfered plinth; sashes with glazing bars in reveals and smaller 6-pane windows all with plain architraves; boxed eaves. Central gabled porch has blind window below coat of arms, moulded kneelers to coped gable, 6-panel door to left return, and blind doorway to right return. Flanking windows and small window to outshut. Hipped roof, sloping down over outshut, with central stack having 4 attached flues with chamfered arises, cornice and tall pots, and similar single-flue chimney to outshut. Rear: narrow central window flanked by larger windows. Left return: board door with window to its right, and on left privy with rentilated board door to right return. Yard wall, approximately 1½ m tall, encloses rectangular yard and has gateway with plain piers on rear side. Interior: unusually, many original features survive, including panelled doors and wall cupboards, panelling below windows, fireplaces with plain surrounds and metal grates, gas lights, kitchen dresser in front left-hand room, and in scullery set pot, sink, and pump with leaf terminal to handle. In state of disrepair at time of inspection.

Listing NGR: SZ3008192287