Tower of Former Low Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1987. Lighthouse.
Tower of Former Low Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-screen-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1987
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Tower of Former Low Lighthouse, Spurn Point, Easington, East Riding of Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- TA 401 112
- Coordinates
- 53.57898, 0.11596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower of the former Low Lighthouse is a lighthouse tower built in 1852, with a later addition of a water tank. It was constructed for Trinity House and is made of brick with an ashlar facing. The tower is tapered and round, featuring an entrance on the east side. It has four storeys and is topped by a cylindrical water tank surrounded by railings. The base of the tower is stepped and approximately 4 metres high, with a short projecting timber platform leading to a square-headed entrance that has a quoined surround. The tower also has blocked windows with eared and shouldered surrounds and a coved cornice.
This lighthouse is the last of a series of Low Lights that were erected since the 17th century and serves as a successor to the earliest lighthouses in the country. It was originally approached by a footbridge from the peninsula. The lighthouse was superseded by the new Spurn Lighthouse and ceased operation in 1895. After its decommissioning, it was used as an explosives magazine and later as a water tower.
Local climate
Tower of Former Low Lighthouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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