Lower Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1950. Lighthouse.
Lower Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-lantern-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood MP: Lorraine Beavers (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 April 1950
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Lower Lighthouse, Esplanade, Fleetwood
- OS grid reference
- SD 338 485
- Coordinates
- 53.92856, -3.00908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Lighthouse was built between 1836 and 1841 and opened in 1840. It was almost certainly designed by Decimus Burton and cost £1,000. The lighthouse is constructed of red sandstone ashlar and consists of three stages. The lower stage features a Tuscan order on a two-step podium, creating a portico in antis on the south side. It has a balustrade with vase-shaped balusters, dies, and a moulded rail. The middle stage includes one blind round-arched door with plain raised frames on each side, each topped with an oculus. There is a balcony with cast-iron railings supported by plain deep brackets. The top stage is octagonal, with a moulded cornice and an octagonal dome topped by a small octagonal drum at the apex.
Local climate
Lower Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,420 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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