Angus HER - NO64SW0054 - BELL ROCK SIGNAL TOWER

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Primary ReferenceNO64SW0054
NameBELL ROCK SIGNAL TOWER
NRHE Card No.NO64SW54
NRHE Numlink 35616
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 21230
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Former lighthouse signal tower for the Bell Rock Lighthouse (NO72NE0001), built in 1813, now in use as a museum. Comprises a classical and castellated group of twin lodges and signal tower, constructed in painted stone. The tower is four storey castellated structure rising from the centre of a piend roofed, two storey, three bay, house. The lower two stages of the tower act as a bowed centre bay to the house, which has a fanlit door at ground level with an encircling Roman Doric portico. The wallhead blocking course is bowed around the tower. The upper stages have narrow round arched windows, a dividing string course, quatrefoil detailed frieze and corbelled castellation at head. A flagpole and signal ball crown the tower. Flanking the entrance to the signal tower are a pair of three bay classical lodges. The ball on the signal tower's flagpole rose and fell to alert the workers constructing the Bell Rock Lighthouse. The Signal Tower now functions as a museum and houses the later 19th century dioptic apparatus with Fresnel lenses which previously served as the lighthouse's source of illumination, moved to the museum on the automation of the lighthouse in 1988. Bee-boles have been recorded within the yard.
Last Update20/10/2020
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Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
BEE-BOLES  K100
LODGES  B100
PORTICOS ROMAN-DORICC100
TOWERS CASTELLATEDD100
ROOFS PIENDEDE100
FANLIGHTS  F100
FRIEZES QUATREFOILG100
FLAGSTAFFS  H100
BALLS SIGNALI100
WINDOWSROUNDARCHEDJ100
TOWERS SIGNALA100