Survey Data
Reg No
30409407
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Lighthouse keeper's house
Date
1815 - 1820
Coordinates
129733, 223127
Date Recorded
22/09/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Two-pile three-bay single-storey lighthouse keeper's house, built 1817, attached to Mutton Island lighthouse. Pitched slate roofs with cut granite chimneystacks and render copings. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with bipartite three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway with timber battened door with overlight. Flat-roofed outhouses having roughcast painted and unpainted rendered walls, square-headed window openings with fixed-pane windows and square-headed door openings with battened timber door. Painted roughcast rendered enclosing wall having rendered coping and lintels to gateways with cast-iron gates.
Appraisal
This lighthouse keeper's house forms a picturesque group with the lighthouse. It has survived relatively unchanged and is notable for its low, modest form and bipartite timber sash windows.