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Detached three-bay single-storey lighthouse keeper's house with dormer attic, built 1853-5; occupied 1901, on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1911. Vacated, 1931[?]. Now disused. Pitched roof on collared timber construction with slate finish now missing, roll moulded clay or terracotta ridge tiles, cut-granite coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having cut-granite stringcourses below stepped capping supporting terracotta pots, and no rainwater goods surviving on cut-granite eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast wall to front (south) elevation on cut-granite chamfered plinth; rendered surface finish (remainder). Square-headed central opposing door openings with cut-granite step thresholds, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds with fittings now missing retaining overlights. Square-headed flanking window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing eight-over-eight timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall with flagged floor; and remains of timber surrounds to door openings to remainder framing remains of timber doors with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set in grounds shared with Broadhaven Lighthouse.
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