Outbuildings, Adjoining Garden Wall and Gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1987. A Victorian Outbuildings. 5 related planning applications.
Outbuildings, Adjoining Garden Wall and Gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-corner-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Beverley and Holderness MP: Graham Stuart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1987
- Type
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Outbuildings, Adjoining Garden Wall and Gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse, HU19 2DY
- OS grid reference
- TA 339 279
- Coordinates
- 53.73054, 0.02895
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuildings, garden wall, and gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse were built between 1892 and 1893, likely designed by Sir James Douglass or Thomas Matthews for Trinity House. The outbuildings are constructed from stuccoed brick that is incised to imitate ashlar and are whitewashed, topped with Welsh slate roofs. The garden wall is made of red brick and features painted ashlar dressings on the piers.
There are three single-storey outbuildings:
1) The first is a two-bay storehouse located at the south end of the garden, which has a pair of recessed four-pane windows with sills on the north front, a two-fold recessed board door with an overlight on the west side, a moulded cornice, and a single-pitch roof with raised stone-coped verges and ornate shaped kneelers.
2) The second is a single-bay outhouse on the east side of the garden, featuring a board door and a 20th-century casement window in the original opening with a sill on the west front, a similar cornice, and a single-pitch roof with coped verges and shaped kneelers.
3) The third is a three-bay relief lighthouse keepers' flat on the west side of the garden, which has twelve-pane casements on the north front, a board door at the rear, a cornice, and a pitched roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers, along with a stack at the rear.
The garden wall is coped and ramps up to the outbuildings. There is a central north gateway leading to the street, featuring square-section coped piers, a wooden gate, and flanking walls with smaller similar piers leading to a recessed entrance on the right. This structure is included for its group value.
Local climate
Outbuildings, Adjoining Garden Wall and Gateway at Withernsea Lighthouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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