Watch House on Rocky Island is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Watch-house.

Watch House on Rocky Island

WRENN ID
blind-portal-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 April 1986
Type
Watch-house
Address
Watch House on Rocky Island, Seaton Valley
OS grid reference
NZ 338 768
Coordinates
55.08507, -1.47148
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Watch House on Rocky Island was built around 1876 for the Seaton Sluice Voluntary Life Saving Company. It is constructed of brick, which is rendered and whitewashed, and features a 20th-century synthetic roof covering. The building is rectangular in shape with a small projecting tower at the south end.

The east elevation has one storey and consists of two bays, with a chamfered plinth and boarded window openings that have slightly projecting sills. The gables are coped. The lookout tower is located at the left end and has paired two-pane casement windows on each face, topped with a pyramidal roof. At the rear of the tower, there is a pent porch with a renewed door. The right return of the building shows a boarded window.

This structure is included for its historical interest.

Local climate

Watch House on Rocky Island receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% 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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