The Lighthouse St. Agnes, England
Listed Building Data
The Lighthouse has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1328835
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II*
- Date Listed
- 6 April 1959
- Name
- THE LIGHTHOUSE
- Location
- THE LIGHTHOUSE
- Parish
- St. Agnes
- District
- Isles of Scilly
- Grid Reference
- SV8802008202
- Easting
- 88019.5820
- Northing
- 8201.7786
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
ST. AGNES
SV80NE The Lighthouse 1358-0/6/10 06/04/59
GV II*
Lighthouse. 1680 for Trinity House, with cupola of 1806. Colourwashed render on granite rubble, with cast-iron and glass cupola. Circular on plan. 3 storeys with fourth-storey cupola. 2 plat band divisions. Randomly-placed casement and 4-pane openings. Projecting eaves with cast-iron railing, curved stanchions tied to glass cupola with square panes with curved conical roof. Addition of c1840 consists of single-storey lean-to porch and corridor attached with further right-angled corridor attached leading to house (q.v.). Interior noted as having lantern reached by wooden newel stair from first floor and carried by shallow stone vault (replacing original timber ceiling); stone mural stair to first floor which has 4 gun ports. Plaque records original build of c1680 by Captain Hugh Hill and Captain Simon Bayly, builders of the 1676 Lowestoft lighthouse. Superseded in 1910 by the Peninnis Lighthouse, St. Mary's (q.v.). The original iron cresset is now in Tresco Gardens (q.v.). (Hague D and Christie R: Lighthouses:Their Architecture, History and Archaeology: Llandysul: 1975-: 79-81, 241-4).
Listing NGR: SV8803008216
