Lighthouse and Adjoining Keepers House is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Lighthouse, keeper's house.
Lighthouse and Adjoining Keepers House
- WRENN ID
- empty-ember-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West MP: Matthew Patrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Lighthouse, keeper's house
- OS grid reference
- SJ 214 890
- Coordinates
- 53.39202, -3.18246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The lighthouse and adjoining keeper's house, built in 1865, are located on Valentia Road in Hoylake. The disused lighthouse is octagonal in shape, constructed from brick with stone dressings. It features a battered base made of rock-faced stone, with an entrance on the north side and windows on the east and west sides. The tower has pilaster strips at the corners, with stone bases, and corbelling at the top. Small lights illuminate the stair and upper chamber on alternating sides. A stone platform supported by deep stone brackets holds an iron railing and an octagonal glazed light chamber topped with a conical roof and weather vane. Inside, there is a cast iron flying spiral stair with a mahogany handrail. The adjoining keeper's house is a two-storey brick structure with a central porch and flanking two-storey canted bay windows, along with one-storey end blocks. The windows are segmental-headed and feature casements.
Local climate
Lighthouse and Adjoining Keepers House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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