Upper Lighthouse or Pharos is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Lighthouse.
Upper Lighthouse or Pharos
- WRENN ID
- spare-copper-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Blackpool North and Fleetwood MP: Lorraine Beavers (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Upper Lighthouse or Pharos, Pharos Place, Fleetwood
- OS grid reference
- SD 339 482
- Coordinates
- 53.92651, -3.00753
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Upper Lighthouse, also known as the Pharos, was built between 1836 and 1840 and opened in 1840. It is almost certainly designed by Decimus Burton and cost £1,770 to construct. The lighthouse is made of ashlar red sandstone and features a rusticated and vermiculated base. It has a square plan with battered walls, clasping buttresses, and a moulded cornice. The entrance door is framed by an "Egyptian" surround. The cylindrical stem of the lighthouse has a moulded base and includes four unmoulded round-arched windows and four oculi at the top. A balcony supported by console-shaped brackets features a cast iron balustrade. The summit is octagonal with a moulded cornice on console-shaped brackets, and it has a door with an unmoulded surround and marginal glazing bars, along with a planked opening on the west side.
Local climate
Upper Lighthouse or Pharos 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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