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Freestanding single-bay two-stage lighthouse, built 1818; extant 1838, on a circular plan. "Restored", 1909. Decommissioned, 1965. Sold, 2008, to accommodate continued private residential use. Now disused. Limewashed granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with cantilevered walkway on cut-granite thumbnail beaded corbels supporting cast-iron "Serpentine" railings centred on lantern on granite ashlar base. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and cut-granite lintels framing timber casement windows. Set in own grounds with repointed piers to perimeter having shallow pyramidal capping supporting looped wrought iron double gates.
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