The North Lookout is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1974. Pilot and lifeboat station.
The North Lookout
- WRENN ID
- nether-stronghold-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1974
- Type
- Pilot and lifeboat station
- Address
- The North Lookout, Crag Path, Aldeburgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 465 565
- Coordinates
- 52.15232, 1.60254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Lookout is a pilot and lifeboat station built around 1850, with a lifeboat station added in the 20th century. It is made of red brick with gault brick dressings and features slate roofs. The exterior includes a four-storey square tower with decorative saw-toothed gault brick quoins at the corners and two-course bands at each floor level. The upper two floors have single-light casements with segmental heads, and the west side has a blank plaster cartouche on the second stage. There is a corbelled eaves cornice beneath the pyramidal roof. Attached to the east is a single-storey lifeboat station. The interior has not been inspected. The pilot station was built in competition with the South Lookout.
Local climate
The North Lookout sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% 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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