Gribbin Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Tower.

Gribbin Tower

WRENN ID
shifting-clay-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1974
Type
Tower
Address
Gribbin Tower, Gribben Head, Fowey
OS grid reference
SX 097 497
Coordinates
50.31698, -4.67312
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gribbin Tower is a navigation beacon built in 1832 by the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford. It features painted red and white stripes and is constructed from ashlar. The tower is very tall with a square plan that slightly tapers as it rises. At the top, it has a corbelled parapet. There are narrow stair lights on two sides and a doorway at the base with a plain architrave. This tower is a prominent landmark on Gribbin Head.

Local climate

Gribbin Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% 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 0.2°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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