Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. Residential.
Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings
- WRENN ID
- ragged-latch-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings, Lydd
- OS grid reference
- TR 088 168
- Coordinates
- 50.91353, 0.9701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings are two-storey structures that originated from the remains of a lighthouse built by William Coke of Holkham in 1792, designed by architect Samuel Wyatt. When a new lighthouse was constructed in 1904, the upper parts of the original lighthouse were demolished, but the two lowest storeys were preserved and converted into dwellings for the lighthouse keepers. Additionally, two separate houses were added in the early 19th century. The remaining structure is circular with a hollow center, creating a small circular courtyard. The exterior is stuccoed with a flat roof featuring a cornice and parapet. There are 16 sash windows with intact glazing bars, and every fourth window bay projects, with a door on the ground floor and a window above. The two early 19th-century additions on the southeast and southwest sides are small, square, single-storey houses or pavilions, each with two windows on each side. These are also stuccoed, with hipped slate roofs and wide eaves cornices, and their glazing bars are intact. Each has a small gabled porch on the inner side with a window facing inward and a six-panel door. On the outer side of each pavilion is the coat of arms of Trinity House.
Local climate
Dungeness Lighthousemen's Dwellings receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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