H. R. CARLETON. CIII. 



concrete floors are paved with small black and white tiles, and 

 the internal face of tower walls, together with the concrete ceil- 

 ings and staircase, are smoothly rendered with cement and 

 decorated with paint work. The various windows, six in 

 number, which are necessary to light up the floors of the tower, 

 are small in size, and are made very strongly of gun-metal cast- 

 ings to a perfectly waterproof design, and glazed with polished 

 plate glass, ■§■" thick. 



The entrance lobby on the ground floor is 10' long 6' wide 

 and 12' high, having a tile floor and cedar entrance door 

 with embossed plate glass panels and side lights opening 

 from a porch, 6' x 6', which has an open entrance and side 

 windows, and is paved with trachyte, and has a flight of trachyte 

 steps. The storeroom and workroom are each 18' x 15', situated 

 on each side of the entrance lobby, and entered from the same by 

 cedar doors. These rooms are 12' high, and are roofed over 

 with flat concrete, 12" thick, supported where necessary on 

 rolled iron girders. The flat roof thus formed over the whole 

 area of store and work rooms, lobby and porch is paved with Val 

 de Travers asphalt, and is entered from a door opening from the 

 first door of the lighthouse tower, the door being protected from 

 the weather by wing walls and roof of concrete, and the whole is 

 surrounded by embattled parapet walls 4' high, ample provision 

 being made by surface gutters and down pipes for remov- 

 ing the heaviest downpour of rain. The internal walls and 

 ceilings of all these rooms are cemented, the walls are painted, 

 and, together with the tower, have a sunk dado moulding. The 

 lower portion, or dado, being painted a darker colour and 

 varnished. The outer walls of this block of buildings are 

 finished with channelled joints to all concrete blocks in plain wall 

 surfaces, and a bold splayed battered plinth and a massive cornice 

 with plain fascia and architrave moulding is carried all round ; 

 the whole being painted in plain colours. The floors of the 

 store and workrooms are paved with Val de Travers asphalt, 

 the windows are of cedar, having the lower portions fixed and 

 the upper portions made to open as fanlights with strong brass 



