Description

EASINGTON SPURN POINT
TA 41 SW
14/7 Tower of former Low
Lighthouse
GV II

Lighthouse tower. 1852 with later water tank. For Trinity House. Brick
with ashlar facing. Tapered round tower with entrance to east. 4 storeys,
surmounted by water tank. Stepped base approximately 4 metres high, short
projecting timber platform to square-headed entrance with quoined surround,
blocked windows with eared and shouldered surrounds, coved cornice.
Cylindrical water tank surmounted by railings. The last of a series of Low
Lights erected since the C17, (and as such a successor to the earliest
lighthouses in the country), it was approached by a foot bridge from the
peninsula. Superceded by the new Spurn Lighthouse (qv) and ceased operation
in 1895. Subsequently used as explosives magazine and water tower.
G de Boer, A History of the Spurn Lighthouses, East Yorkshire Local History
Series No 24, 1968, pp 59, 64-6.

Listing NGR: TA4018911233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Spurn Point Low Light at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26630126

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2