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Hook Head Lighthouse — CHURCHTOWN (Shelburne By.)

lighthouse keeper's house
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Hook Head Lighthouse — CHURCHTOWN (Shelburne By.)
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Detached three-bay two-storey lighthouse keeper's house, occupied 1901, on a T-shaped plan centred on single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to ground floor. Vacated, 1977. Now in alternative use. One of a pair. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof (porch) with clay ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite ogee kneelers with cement rendered chimney stacks to apexes having concrete capping supporting terracotta pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on yellow brick header bond stepped eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Rendered walls on rendered chamfered plinth. Square-headed window opening (porch) with cut-granite sill, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two timber sash window. Square-headed opposing door openings ("cheeks") with step thresholds, and concealed dressings framing timber boarded doors. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing three-over-three timber sash windows centred on two-over-two timber sash window (first floor). 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 panelled reveals or shutters to window openings. Set in grounds shared with Hook Head Lighthouse.

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