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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.
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NO64SW0054 - BELL ROCK SIGNAL TOWER