Light House is a Grade II listed building in the Hastings local planning authority area, England. Lighthouse.
Light House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-bracket-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hastings
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Light House, West Hill Recreation Ground
- OS grid reference
- TQ 823 097
- Coordinates
- 50.8582, 0.58982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Light House, rebuilt in 1851, is a small lighthouse located on a hillside overlooking the sea and the Old Town. It features a stuccoed base with weatherboarding above and is quintagonal in shape. The structure tapers towards the top and has a small hipped roof clad in zinc, which includes a ventilator. On the seaward side, there is a three-sided projecting window with oval lights and a deep cill, while a small window is present on the opposite side. A doorway is located at the base of the lighthouse.
Local climate
Light House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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