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Freestanding single-bay two-stage lighthouse, built 1838, on a circular plan. "Converted", 1938. Electrified, 1971. Decommissioned, 1991. Recommissioned, 1996. Limewashed granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with cantilevered walkway on cut-granite thumbnail beaded corbels supporting cast-iron serpentine railings centred on lantern on granite ashlar battered base. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and cut-granite lintel framing timber boarded door. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Limewashed interior retaining cantilevered cut-granite spiral staircase with wrought iron balusters supporting wrought iron banister. Set in shared grounds on an elevated site with limewashed rendered battered boundary wall to perimeter having lichen-covered cut-granite coping.
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