page_title: Smoky Cape Lighthouse
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Smoky Cape Lighthouse / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: Smoky Cape Light, lighthouse plans, by James Barnet - NSW Colonial Architect, 1888
context_page_description: Smoky Cape Lighthouse is a heritage-listed active lighthouse located on Smoky Cape, a headland in Arakoon east of the town of South West Rocks, Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia, and within the Hat Head National Park. It directs boats towards the entrance to the Macleay River, which is located just to the north of the lighthouse.
  It is one of the last major lighthouse complexes designed by the New South Wales colonial architect of the time, James Barnet, and was one of Australia's last lighthouses to be designed for architectural excellence.
  Standing on a granite headland 111 metres above the sea, its light is the highest in New South Wales.
  It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
context_section_description: The lighthouse's design is unusual for its octagonal tower, and was so designed because it was easier to cast the tower in the octagonal formwork than round formwork. It has a single story pavilion entrance, cast iron staircase and distinctive gunmetal balustrade. It is one of only three nineteenth century mass concrete lighthouses in NSW (the others being South Solitary Island Lighthouse and Green Cape Lighthouse).
  The fact that it has its original Chance Brothers revolving apparatus and lens, and lantern house, makes it an important example of late nineteenth century industrial maritime technology.
caption: Lighthouse plans, 1888
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