Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Lighthouse, cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-entrance-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Lighthouse, cottage
- Address
- Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage, North Sunderland
- OS grid reference
- NU 217 358
- Coordinates
- 55.61541, -1.65585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lighthouse and Keeper's Cottage, built in 1810 by David Alexander for Trinity House in Newcastle, is located on the Farne Islands. The lighthouse is constructed from painted ashlar and features a lead roof. It stands three storeys tall, round and tapering, with a 12-pane sash window on the ground floor and the Trinity House crest above it. Below the light, there is a balcony with curved iron railings. The light itself has square glazing bars and is topped with a domed lead roof that has a small lead drum. A short connecting section leads to the cottage, which has a flush-panelled door with a bracketed stone hood. The two-bay cottage is made of dressed stone and has 12-pane sashes set in chamfered reveals. It features a pyramidal roof with a tall central stack.
Local climate
Lighthouse and Keepers Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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