
What is recorded here
Two-pile three-bay single-storey lighthouse keeper's house, built 1817, attached to Mutton Island lighthouse. Pitched slate roofs with cut granite chimneystacks and render copings. Rendered walls. Square-headed window openings with bipartite three-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed doorway with timber battened door with overlight. Flat-roofed outhouses having roughcast painted and unpainted rendered walls, square-headed window openings with fixed-pane windows and square-headed door openings with battened timber door. Painted roughcast rendered enclosing wall having rendered coping and lintels to gateways with cast-iron gates.
This lighthouse keeper's house forms a picturesque group with the lighthouse. It has survived relatively unchanged and is notable for its low, modest form and bipartite timber sash windows.
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
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