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IoE Number:
235994
Location:
HIGH LIGHT (LIGHTHOUSE ATTACHED TO REAR WING OF NUMBER 8), BATH TERRACE (BACK LANE)
BLYTH, BLYTH VALLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
15 July 1987
Date of last amendment:
15 July 1987
Grade
II
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BLYTH BATH TERRACE
NZ 3181 SE
(back lane)
12/30 High Light
(lighthouse attached
28.7.50 to rear wing of No.8)
(formerly listed as High
GV II Lighthouse)
Lighthouse, 1780-90, heightened twice in later C19/early C20. C18 part squared
stone, upper parts brick, colour-washed. Slightly-tapered circular tower.
Lower part in 4 stages, divided by bands. Doorway on north, within small added
porch; quatrefoil or cross loops, some blocked, to cardinal points. Upper part
with 2 bands on moulded corbels, 2 windows to south. Flat roof has railing
with knobbed spiral standards.
Interior: C18 part has stone newel stair; ladders in top section.
The lighthouse was worked in conjunction with the Low Light (rebuilt 1936)
until 1985, when it was superseded by modern navigation aids on a different
alignment and repainted mushroom instead of white.