Description

SW 83 SE GERRANS

4/18 Saint Anthony's Lighthouse and
- Keepers Cottage

II

Lighthouse and Keepers cottage. 1834-35. Painted granite ashlar walls with paired
chimneys to landward north-east side. Octagonal on plan with covered passage to 2
room keepers cottage to rear. 4 floors plus lantern. Built on bedrock with banded,
rusticated ashlar to base and to flanking observations areas with original bollards
and iron rails. Lighthouse tower slightly tapered. Windows to 4 sides with
alternate 16-pane sashes, and blind windows. Moulded spray deflecting cornice with
original simple parapet balustrade, 12-light lantern surmounted by weather vane.
Keepers cottage is single storey with hipped slate roof and 2 sashes.
Interiors not inspected. Fog warning bell, Cornwall's heaviest,was removed in 1854.

Listing NGR: SW8460431149

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Anthony's Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q2686634

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]