Killingholme High Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Lincolnshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. Lighthouse.
Killingholme High Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-quartz-kestrel
- 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 High Lighthouse, South Killingholme
- OS grid reference
- TA 178 182
- Coordinates
- 53.64719, -0.21886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Killingholme High Lighthouse is a lighthouse established in 1831 and rebuilt in 1876-1877 for Trinity House. It is constructed of brick, rendered, and colourwashed, featuring a six-storey tapered round tower that stands 30 metres high. The ground floor has a recessed plain door beneath a timber lintel, along with two recessed louvred openings. The second, third, fourth, and fifth floors each have two or three 12-pane sash windows with projecting cills and recessed lintels. A moulded cornice supports a balcony on the top floor, which is enclosed by plain iron railings. The top floor includes a plinth, an incised band below the cill band, and a wide east-facing window with vertical glazing bars. The roof is topped with a ribbed dome featuring scalloped eaves, a cylindrical ventilator, and a weathervane. A stack on the south side has a stepped cornice and four cylindrical pots.
On the north side, there is a plaque inscribed with details about the lighthouse's enlargement and rebuilding by the Trinity House of Kingston upon Hull in 1877, along with names of wardens and information about other lighthouses in the area. Although the lighthouse is no longer manned, it is still used alongside the nearby Killingholme South Low Lighthouse to guide shipping in the Humber. In the 19th century, it served as a link in the Hull Telegraph.
Local climate
Killingholme High 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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