St Margaret's Old Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Lighthouse.
St Margaret's Old Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- fallen-step-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- St Margaret's Old Lighthouse, the Front, St. Margaret's at Cliffe
- OS grid reference
- TR 362 433
- Coordinates
- 51.14096, 1.37613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Margaret's Old Lighthouse is a lighthouse built in 1795 and rebuilt in 1843. It features red brick rendered with Roman cement and has a cast iron lantern. The lighthouse has an octagonal plan and stands two storeys high, topped with machicolated battlements. The lantern has latticed windows, and there are two four-centred arched doorways; one leads to the basement and the other, to the right, leads to the main staircase, with a niche between them. Inside, the staircase winds within the main chamber, which has cast iron floors. The walls were originally panelled and some of this panelling survives. The cast iron lantern once had a light that floated on a bed of mercury to maintain balance, although the glazing has been lost. A single-storey outbuilding mentioned in a previous survey has been lost due to the receding cliffline. The lighthouse was sold by Trinity House when the Goodwin Lightship was established.
Local climate
St Margaret's Old Lighthouse receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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