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Duncannon North Lighthouse

lighthouse keeper's house
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Duncannon North Lighthouse
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Detached three-bay single-storey lighthouse keeper's house with half-dormer attic, built 1838, on a rectangular plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Vacated, 1971. Sold, 1991. Pitched slate roof with ridge tiles, coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having paired stringcourses below capping supporting louvered terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on limewashed cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Limewashed slate hung battered walls on rendered plinth; rendered surface finish (gables). Square-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded door. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Square-headed window openings (south) with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors; and timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing timber panelled doors with timber surrounds to window openings framing timber panelled splayed reveals or shutters. Set in grounds shared with Duncannon North Lighthouse.

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