Ballycotton Lighthouse — BALLYCOTTON ISLAND

Attached circular-plan three-stage lighthouse, built c. 1850, having projecting platform encircling lantern. Faceted metal-framed glazed lantern. Rendered walls with corbels supporting cut stone platform having metal balustrade. Square-headed window openings to shaft with cut stone sills and eight-over-eight pane timber sliding sash windows and render block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door opening with replacement door. Retains internal features including stone spiral staircase and lighthouse machinery. Painted stone compound walls. Recent three-bay two-storey accommodation block to south with recessed bays, flat roof with square-profile third storey, concrete walls and square-headed openings with replacement uPVC windows. Pair of three-bay single-storey former lighthouse keepers' houses to south with pitched slate roofs, dressed stone copings and chimneystacks and rendered walls with dressed stone plinth courses and square-headed openings. Square-headed openings with timber battened doors and cut limestone steps. Retain internal features such as internal doors and architraves and tiled floor. Cast-iron water storage tanks to site. Single-bay single-storey store buildings with slate lean-to roofs, dressed stone copings, painted rubble stone walls and square-headed window openings with timber fittings and cut stone sills. Square-headed door openings with timber battened doors. Limestone paving. Rubble stone walls and rendered steps to path from landing stage.