Number 4 Leading Light on Foreshore Near Rampside Hall is a Grade II listed building in the local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1991. Navigation beacon.
Number 4 Leading Light on Foreshore Near Rampside Hall
- WRENN ID
- over-minaret-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1991
- Type
- Navigation beacon
- Address
- Number 4 Leading Light on Foreshore Near Rampside Hall, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- SD 241 662
- Coordinates
- 54.08644, -3.16119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Leading Light is a navigation beacon located on the foreshore near Rampside Hall, built around 1875. It is constructed from red and yellow brick and features a slender, square tower that stands approximately 20 meters tall. The design includes clasping red brick pilaster strips and yellow brick side panels, which are reinforced with iron straps extending from a concrete foundation. The structure has an iron access door and small slit windows. Beneath the yellow brick lantern housing, there is corbelled brickwork, also secured with iron strapping, and rectangular panels on each side. The tower culminates in a brick, pyramidal roof with additional corbelling. Similar leading lights were previously constructed on Foulney Island and off Carr Lane, Walney Island, both of which have since been demolished. The alignment of these lights was crucial for guiding vessels approaching Barrow-in-Furness.
Local climate
Number 4 Leading Light on Foreshore Near Rampside Hall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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