Needles Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1994. Lighthouse. 2 related planning applications.
Needles Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- moated-mantel-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1994
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Needles Lighthouse, Totland, Isle of Wight, PO39 0JH
- OS grid reference
- SZ 289 848
- Coordinates
- 50.66224, -1.5917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Needles Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1859 by James Walker, who was the consultant engineer to Trinity House. It replaced an earlier lighthouse that was located on the cliff top. The structure is made of granite masonry and stands 33.25 metres high with a uniform diameter, featuring an unevenly stepped base. While the tower does not taper, the wall thickness varies from 1.07 metres at the bottom to 0.61 metres at the top. The lighthouse is topped with a battlemented parapet.
Local climate
Needles Lighthouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- No radon data for this postcode
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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