Description

COUNTISBURY FORELAND POINT
SS 75 Sll
2/33 Foreland Point Lighthouse and
- adjoining retaining walls
- II
Lighthouse and adjoining retaining walls. 1900, with some mid - to - late
alterations. Cement rendered, lined as ashlar, possibly over rubble. 2-span hipped
Welsh-slate roof over domestic range and painted metal fittings to tower. Painted
rubble retaining walls with rounded copings and granite steps.
Plan: sited on the steep slope of the headland (Foreland Point); consisting of a
terrace with retaining walls and flanking flights of steps and domestic range with
covered staircase link down the slope to the circular tower on the north (seaward)
side of the site. Tower of 2 stages and domestic range of one storey with basement.
Exterior: lower stage of tower with plinth and frieze, small-headed wooden
casements to each side with raised quoined surrounds, and C20 flat-roofed addition
to seaward side housing fog signal equipment. Light-stage with projecting railed
walkway, lattice metal glazing bars (metal panels screening each diamond light on
landward side), domed metal roof with handrail and low domed cylindrical cap with
gilded weathervane. Linking corridor to domestic range with frieze and cornice
bands, and blocking course; each has side small wooden casements with quoined
surrounds, flanking central entrance. Domestic range with raised quoins, string
course between basement and ground floor to north, architrave and frieze barrels and
3 axial brick stacks to each ridge. 3:3:3 bays; wooden cross windows with raised
quoined surrounds. Three-bay end elevations with wooden cross and central
boarded doorways, all with raised quoined surrounds.
Interior: of tower; largely unaltered since 1900, but converted to electricity in
1975. Lamp resting on mercury bath supported on 6 cast-iron columns. Lamp flushes
4 turns per second. Ground-floor with central weight tuke (formerly containing
weights for winding system used prior to introduction of electricity), and curved
wooden glazed cupboard with lead-lined sink in base. Cast-iron staircase with brass
handrail. Brass fittings throughout. Plaque inscribed: "THIS LIGHTHOUSE/WAS
ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HOUSE/IN THE YEAR 1900./CAPTAIN H.R.H. THE
DUKE OF YORK R.N. MASTER/CAPTAIN GEORGE RAWLINSON VYVYAN, DEPUTY MASTER:/T. MATHEWS,
ENGINEER-IN-CHIEF". Interior of domestic range not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7538951096

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15243200

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