Description

Circa 1820. Single storey, 3-bay flat roofed symmetrical lighthouse store of rectangular plan. Squared rubble walls with polished and droved ashlar dressings and details. Base course, eaves cornice. Margined openings. Vertically-boarded timber door in centre with vertically-boarded timber shutters to windows in flanking bays. Wallhead stacks centring side elevations; square bases swept up to octagonal shafts with corniced copes.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: rectangular plan random rubble enclosing wall, droved ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps centred to W; distance to lighthouse inscribed on cap of N pier; wrought-iron gate. Additional stugged stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps to S.

Statement of Interest

Built as the waterfront depot for Sumburgh Lighthouse, this is a rare building type, well constructed in the high quality materials commonly associated with lighthouse architecture. The design of the chimneys matches those on the pavilions at the lighthouse.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772698

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)