Survey Data
Reg No
40901303
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Lighthouse keeper's house
In Use As
House
Date
1830 - 1840
Coordinates
268205, 442636
Date Recorded
26/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay single-storey with attic lighthouse keeper's house, built c. 1835, with lean-to bays to both gables. Pitched slate roofs with dressed granite gable copings, smooth rendered chimneystacks with stone copings and tall chimney pots, cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered walls with stepped painted cut stone plinth course. Square-headed window openings with smooth rendered articulated surrounds and eight-over-eight and two-over-two horned timber sash windows with painted stone sills. Square-headed door opening with smooth rendered articulated surround, battened timber door with glazed overlight and stone threshold. Whitewashed rubble stone walls to gardens adjoining with dressed granite copings, freestanding shed adjacent with monopitch artificial slate roof and whitewashed rubble stone walls. Set to south-west of complex, next to coastal edge of Dunagree Point.
Appraisal
A lighthouse keeper's house built to a design by George Halpin, a fine addition to the collection of buildings that distinguish this site. As well as its fine proportions and evident quality construction, it forms an integral part of the history of the coastal navigation system of Lough Foyle and Inishowen. It is also of significance as part of an important group of lighthouse related structures (40901301-5).