Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Cottage.

Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman

WRENN ID
rooted-barrel-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 August 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman, North Sunderland
OS grid reference
NU 236 379
Coordinates
55.63422, -1.62566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman is a Grade II listed building located in North Sunderland on the Farne Islands. The beacon, likely dating from the 18th century, is accompanied by a cottage and the stump of a lighthouse, which were constructed in 1810. The structure is made of dressed stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The square beacon, approximately 20 feet high, has three offsets and is situated to the right of the cottage. The single-storey, two-bay cottage has two 12-pane segment-headed windows and a gabled roof with a hipped dormer. Attached to the left side of the cottage is the round stump of the lighthouse, which includes three small 6-panel, segment-headed fixed windows. There is a door located on the right return of the cottage. This building holds significant landscape value.

Local climate

Cottage and Beacon on Brownsman receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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