Description
David and Charles Stevenson, dated 1891, with accommodation block of 1948. Lighthouse complex enclosed within rectangular boundary wall comprising principal building with 4-stage tower to rear (S), fog horn house centred to S, accommodation block to N, and variety of outbuildings along W wall. 19th century former semaphore signal on hill to N; late 19th century former lifeboat house at shore to E. Buildings and tower constructed of harled and painted brick and concrete.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING: single storey, 11-bay (grouped 2-7-2) near- symmetrical offices with 4-stage tower centred to rear. Concrete base course and wallhead cope; projecting cills to windows.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: principal entrance door in centre bay with oval datestone and lighthouse armorial panel rising into stepped wallhead centred above flanked by brick pilasters. 3 closely-spaced and regularly-fenestrated bays at right; 3 closely-spaced bays at left with wide segmental arch in left bay; segmental-arched doors and windows respectively in penultimate and outer bays bay at left and right. Raised wallhead over centre bays
SIDE ELEVATIONS: symmetrical, regularly fenestrated 2-bay elevations.
S ELEVATION AND TOWER: 5-bay symmetrical elevation with tower projecting in centre bay and regular fenestration in flanking bays. 4-stage tower comprising circular concrete plinth at base, battered shaft with string courses between each stage and narrow 2-pane fixed- lights with long and short dressings at 1st and 2nd stages to S, 2nd and 3rd stages to N, and 3rd stage to E; cast-iron brackets supporting balcony with cast-iron handrail around upper stage comprising cylindrical murette with portholes and door; cast-iron cleaning path around lantern triangular-paned glazing, surmounted by dome with arrow vane to vent.
ACCOMMODATION BLOCK: 2-storey, 9-bay (grouped 3-3-3) symmetrical staff quarters of traditional design. Harled walls with concrete and brick dressings, all painted. Base course, painted cills to windows
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: piend-roofed single storey porch with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors in each side projecting at centre; bipartite windows centred above, and at ground and 1st floors in flanking bays. Symmetrical 3-bay groups to outer left and right comprising narrow windows to ground and 1st floor at centre with regular fenestration in flanking bays.
E ELEVATION: 2-storey porch with dog-leg concrete external stair to vertically-boarded timber door in S side; windows at each floor in E side, vertically-boarded timber doors at ground in re-entrant at right, and at outer right, the latter with window centred above.
N (REAR) ELEVATION: 6-bay symmetrical elevation with bipartite windows at ground and 1st floors of centre 4 bays, and regular fenestration in bays to outer left and right.
W ELEVATION: mirrored image of E elevation.
12 and 6-pane timber sash and case windows. Corrugated sheet cladding to shallow-pitched roof with bracketted block skewputts; bracketted metal box gutters and cast-iron downpipes.
OUTBUILDING: single storey, flat-roofed block. Base course, eaves course and margined openings. Asymmetrical courtyard elevation comprising wide 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door off-set to right of centre, 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door to left and window to outer left; 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door to outer right with window adjacent to left.
FORMER TOILETS AND PETROL STORE: single storey, 4-bay former toilets; vertically-boarded timber door with rectangular fanlight in each bay; monopitch roof.
FOG HORN HOUSE: shuttered concrete 2-stage tower comprising hexagonal lower stage with 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber door in N face and 6-pane fixed-lights, corbelled out to semicircular upper stage (now with modern horns 1996).
SUNDIAL: bollard-like cast-iron plinth to sundial (now removed), on square stone base.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped cement-rendered and whitewashed battered rubble boundary wall, S wall articulated in semi-octagonal form around horn house. Square gatepiers with pyramidal caps.
SEMAPHORE: 19th century, on hill to N. Former timber semaphore signal comprising paired uprights clasping pin-jointed beam.
FORMER LIFEBOAT HOUSE AND WINCH: symmetrical gabled lifeboat house comprising vertically-boarded timber round-arched door centring E gable and 8-pane timber sash and case windows in 2-bay side elevations. Harled walls and modern corrugated sheet roof. Open timber stair to gallery at W end of interior. Cast-iron winch at beach to E.