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Mizen Head Signal Station

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Mizen Head Signal Station
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Freestanding octagonal-plan two-bay single-stage former fog signal station, built 1909, with flanking single-bay single-storey blocks. Now in use as part of lighthouse station. Recent steel railing, air vents and fixed ladder to walls and roof. Flat roof with parapet and moulded cornice. Painted rendered walls with cast-iron rainwater goods and square-headed air vents. Square-headed openings with fixed pane windows and blocked rendered openings with concrete sills. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door and concrete step. Situated on raised keyhole-plan concrete platform with original disused and recent signal lights to south-west.

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