Lighthouses For Sale Around the World
By Sue Clark on Nov 2, 2007 in Lighthouses For Sale 
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Featured Post From November 2, 2007
If you don’t want to take your chances with an online auction that may end up costing you more than you planned to spend due to repairs, you may want to drool over these lighthouses that are for sale right now.
Starting in Hunstanton, Norfolk, across the Big Pond, is a four bedroom house with spectacular views. A Grade II listed lighthouse, it’s yours for the asking price of £695,000. That’s a mere $1,445,836 at today’s exchange rates. For the money, you get breathtaking views from a clifftop looking out to sea across to the Lincolnshire coast. Other amenities include a stone walled garden and ample parking. A floor plan of the house is included on the site above, along with photos of the interior. The lighthouse was built in 1844 and the house was added on to in the 1920s. It is currently being used as a rental unit, but is suitable for a family home.
If you’re not interested in becoming a British citizen, on Lake Ontario fifteen miles west of Rochester, NY, you can investigate Braddock Point Lighthouse. The asking price for this beautiful property with four bedrooms, two and a half baths and 1.15 acres is $1,499,000. This is not the original tower, which was torn down by the Coast Guard in 1954. The people that bought it rebuilt the tower and have lovingly restored the house (check out the photos) and it is again an active aid to navigation as of 1998. Be sure to check out the photos at the Remax listing. The interior is period perfect, and the views are spectacular.
If you don’t feel like decorating and would like a boat thrown into the works, you can buy the Isle au Haut Lightstation (the Keeper’s House) on Mount Desert Island, ME, on two acres with all furnishings, machinery, tools, supplies, two vehicles, bikes and boats, including PAX, the “French-fry” boat– a 25-foot 1950 vintage canopied launch powered by bio-diesel fuel. Can’t have the lighthouse, though, as the town of Isle au Haunt owns it.
This lighthouse home is currently a bed and breakfast, and it can all be yours for the price of $2,500,000. This might sound steep, but this is an ecologically friendly home, off the power grid at the end of a half mile long private road (read: do your own road maintenance). It’s on the National Register of Historic Places and is comprised of a seven room main house with four bedrooms and two baths, a four room house with one bedroom and one bath, two small heated cabins, two storage buildings, a large boathouse, pier, ramp, floating dock, boat mooring and 700 feet of deep water frontage on Isle Au Haut Bay. Believe me, it’s a steal for the price of oceanfront property in Maine. Check their photo page for more views.
Belle Toute Lighthouse has had at least two purchase offers, so it’s no longer for sale, as the second one was even higher than the first, and another lighthouse in the United Kingdom may have been resold to a woman embroiled in a fraud controversy, so that may come back on the market, but as of right now, the above are ready and waiting for a new owner. Folks, get your checkbooks out and buy your very own lighthouse.
If you know of any others for sale, let us know by leaving a comment.
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