Walney Lighthouse With Two Attached Cottages And Outbuildings

Walney Lighthouse, built in 1790, is a significant structure located on Walney Island, along with two attached cottages and an outbuilding. It was commissioned by the Lancaster Quay Commissioners and features dressed, painted stone for the lighthouse and stucco for the cottages, both topped with slate roofs. The buildings form a U-shaped group, with the octagonal lighthouse connecting the pair of two-storey cottages and a single-storey outbuilding, all arranged around a pebbled courtyard.

The lighthouse is tapered and has slit windows, with an iron balcony surrounding the fully-glazed lantern housing and a hipped roof topped with a finial. The cottage on the left has a door in the one-storey link to the lighthouse and features two 20th-century six-pane casements on each floor. The cottage on the right includes a gabled porch with a door on the left side and six-pane sash windows, with the upper windows set in half-dormers. Both cottages have coped gables and end and central stacks. The outbuilding has two boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, with a monoclinal roof.

The lighthouse was authorized by an Act of Parliament in 1789 and constructed using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of £1,100. The lighthouse is particularly important within this group of buildings.