The Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. Lighthouse. 2 related planning applications.
The Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- The Lighthouse, Lighthouse Lane, Hunstanton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE36 6EL
- OS grid reference
- TF 676 420
- Coordinates
- 52.94965, 0.49363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lighthouse, located on Lighthouse Lane in New Hunstanton, is a former lighthouse with attached cottages, dating from around 1830. It is constructed of rendered stuccoed brick with slated roofs. The lighthouse features a circular, battered tower inspired by classical design, rising four storeys high. At the base, there is a coat of arms, and each floor has a single round-headed window. Massive modillion blocks serve as brackets for a gallery, which is surrounded by an iron balcony encircling a canted top-storey that has a 20th-century termination above.
To the north of the lighthouse is a cottage, which was originally balanced by another cottage to the south that has since been demolished. This cottage is designed in a Gothick style, featuring a two-storey gable with a ground-floor pedimented bay window and a first-floor cross window with a drip mould. The cottage has had 20th-century casements inserted. It also includes kneelers and coped parapets, and the roof has been replaced, with the stacks to the north cut down. A door with rusticated dressings connects the cottage to the lighthouse.
Local climate
The Lighthouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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