North Shields, New High Light

HER Number:
2129

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, New High Light

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Maritime

Site Type: Broad:
Navigation Aid

Site Type: Specific:
Lighthouse

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The High Lighthouse, with the Low Light (HER 2057) was a guide light for vessels entering the mouth of the Tyne. Built to replace the earlier High Light (HER 4556) which was rendered useless by changes in the river channel, the High Light was completed in 1807 and first lit in 1810. {2} Lighthouse, dated 1808 on north elevation and on rainwater head, and house 1860. Lighthouse by John Stokoe for Trinity House, Newcastle upon Tyne. Painted ashlar and brick, iron balustrade and lead roof. House has Welsh slate roof. Lighthouse 4 storeys and lantern stage. Ground floor projection has blocked Venetian window. Blocked windows with classical treatment on first and second floors. Round-arched top window under pediment. Cornice and iron balustrade with urn cover finials. House is of two storeys. Bricked-up overlight to hardboard-covered door at left; wedge stone lintels and stone sills. Plaque above door commemorating rebuilding in 1860, bears arms of Trinity House, Newcastle.

Easting:
3605

Northing:
6836

Grid Reference:
NZ36056836

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2129 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, SE M.H. Dodds, 1928, The North Shields Lighthouses J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 15/127