Killingholme North Low Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Lighthouse.
Killingholme North Low Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- calm-ashlar-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Lincolnshire
- Constituency
- Brigg and Immingham MP: Martin Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1985
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Killingholme North Low Lighthouse, South Killingholme
- OS grid reference
- TA 177 184
- Coordinates
- 53.64926, -0.21962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Killingholme North Low Lighthouse is a lighthouse and adjoining lighthouse keeper's house, now a private residence, built in 1851 by William Foale for Trinity House. The structure features a smooth-rendered brick lighthouse and a rough-rendered brick house, with a slate roof on the house. The building faces the sea.
The lighthouse is a four-storey tapered round tower with a prominently splayed-out base. It has recessed bowed 12-pane sash windows with projecting cills on the first three floors. The top floor includes a balcony with plain iron railings, a plinth, an incised chamfered band, a recessed panelled door, a small casement window, and a wide 10-pane window facing north. The tower is topped with a ribbed dome and scalloped eaves, and it has a projecting stack that is corbelled out at the top, featuring four octagonal pots.
Adjoining the lighthouse to the left (south) is a two-storey, two-bay house with a projecting enclosed gabled porch on the left side, which has a 20th-century door on the right. The front of the house has two 4-pane sash windows with projecting cills, recessed cambered arches, and a coped gable with shaped kneelers. There is a single unequal sash window with glazing bars on the first floor to the right. The gable of the house abuts the lighthouse tower on the right, while the left side has a hipped roof with an end stack. There are single-storey extensions to the left, constructed in similar materials, featuring 20th-century casements and hipped roofs.
The lighthouse served as a signal station for trawlers until 1920. The date of its construction and the names of the wardens are recorded on a plaque at the nearby Killingholme High Lighthouse.
Local climate
Killingholme North Low Lighthouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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