 It still survives as part of a private garden but is under threat from cliff erosion.The destruction of Trinity House records during the last war has prompted considerable conjecture about this lighthouse's history because other source material is hard to find.Whilst beacons or votive lights may have existed from early times one of the first reliable references is found the Penny Magazine 19th Sept. 1835, pp365, and states that Charles I granted letters-patent to 'continue and renew' the lighthouses at the North and South Forelands to Sir John Meldrum.