Lighthouse with adjoining former Keepers' Cottages

The lighthouse, with its adjoining former keepers’ cottages, was built in the 18th century. The circular lighthouse tower, 17.07 metres high, rises from the hipped roof of a single-storey stores building. Low corridors connect the stores to a pair of two-storey houses set at right angles. The building is constructed of white-painted limestone or render, with slate hipped roofs. The tower is tapered and two-storey high, with a bold moulded cornice and an iron railing around the roughcast base of the lattice-glazed lantern. A ribbed conical iron roof, topped with a ball finial and arrow vane, is connected to an internal compass. The north side of the tower has one window on each floor, with the arms of Trinity House in relief between. These windows are two-light, with tilting top lights, and have unmoulded projecting lintels balancing the sills. Two blind windows face south, the lower one pierced by a small circular opening. The tower rises from the south roof slope of the stores building, and its curved form projects centrally, with a heavy moulded string carried from the eaves on either side. Low walls link the lighthouse to the south ends of the houses, creating small yards.

The symmetrical houses frame the central lighthouse range, running north-south. They are two-storey high and rendered, with lean-tos and side-wall stacks. Principal windows are in the north and south end walls, with three-light casements to the ground floor and casement pairs above (the seaward windows in the west house have been renewed with UPVC). Blind panels are present on each floor, at each end of the projecting inner side walls. Outer walls have chimneys with stepped tops (formerly with octagonal limestone shafts). Tiny central first-floor windows and ground-floor lean-tos feature coped end gables. Originally, the houses had two casement pairs alternated with two plank doors. A 20th-century lean-to has been added to the east outshut, to the left. A cobbled forecourt lies to the north.

Inside the lighthouse, there is a single circular chamber on each of the two floors, with an open cantilevered stone staircase running along the outer wall. The first floor and lantern floor have slate floors carried on radial cast iron beam plates. Lotus flower cast-iron railings are found on the upper stairs. A curved fitted cupboard is in the first-floor room. The optic is a helical catadioptric lens, bearing a maker's plate reading ‘Chance Brothers and Co Ltd. Lighthouse Engineers and Constructors near Birmingham’. The lighthouse was converted to gas around 1920 and remains gas operated.