Seaton High Light is a Grade II listed building in the Hartlepool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1985. Navigation light tower.
Seaton High Light
- WRENN ID
- tangled-jade-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hartlepool
- Constituency
- Hartlepool MP: Mr Jonathan Brash (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1985
- Type
- Navigation light tower
- Address
- Seaton High Light, Jackson's Landing, the Highlight
- OS grid reference
- NZ 515 332
- Coordinates
- 54.69154, -1.20218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seaton High Light is a river navigation light tower built in 1838 for the Tees Navigation Company. Originally located at the Vulcan Materials UK Ltd site in Longhill, it was later moved to its current position at the east end of Jackson's Landing. The tower is constructed from magnesian limestone ashlar and is internally lined with brick. It features a Tuscan column on a stepped pedestal, which has banded rustication and a cyma-recta-moulded plinth. There are slit-lights within the masonry coursing of the column. The east face of the pedestal has a doorway with an architrave, a keystone dated 1838, and a ledged and battened door. Inside, there is a newel stair, and the tower once supported a lantern, which is now missing. At the time of the listing survey around 1985, the structure was disused and in a dilapidated state, but it has since been restored.
Local climate
Seaton High Light receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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