The South Lookout is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1974. Lookout tower.
The South Lookout
- WRENN ID
- still-span-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1974
- Type
- Lookout tower
- Address
- The South Lookout, Crag Path, Aldeburgh
- OS grid reference
- TM 465 563
- Coordinates
- 52.15057, 1.60208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The South Lookout is a lookout tower located in Aldeburgh, built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from rendered and colorwashed brick and features slate roofs. The tower is three stories tall and has a square shape, with single-light casements placed at intervals. On the south side, there is a cast-iron external winder staircase that leads to a plank door on the top floor. The west face has some minor decorative elements, including plaster brackets and aedicules. The east face features a cantilevered viewing gallery on the top floor, which supports a 20th-century glazed porch. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof that has a weather vane shaped like a wherry. At the base of the tower, there is a single-storey building. The lookout tower was constructed in competition with the North Lookout Tower. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The South 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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