National Lighthouse Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 2003. Depot. 5 related planning applications.
National Lighthouse Centre
- WRENN ID
- patient-copper-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 2003
- Type
- Depot
- Address
- National Lighthouse Centre, Wharf Road, Penzance, TR18 4BN
- OS grid reference
- SW 476 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11651, -5.53162
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The National Lighthouse Centre in Penzance is a Trinity House depot built in 1861. The building is finished in stucco and features a slate roof with coped parapeted gable ends and shaped kneelers.
The structure is a large rectangular single-storey workshop with six bays, while the southeast section has two storeys with a loft and an entrance at the northwest end. The northeast front consists of eight bays with an arcade of recessed segmental-headed panels. The left two bays have small 12-pane sash windows on the first floor, while the six bays to the right contain segmentally headed 16-pane recessed windows, each with segmentally headed blind panels above. The northwest gable end features a large central doorway and tall narrow 12-pane windows, all with segmental arches set in segmentally arched recesses. Above the doorway, there are blind segmental arch panels, with the center panel being larger and displaying a small plaque bearing the Trinity House arms, along with an oculus above. The rear, or southwest elevation, mirrors the front but in reverse, and includes a loft gable on the right with a loading door.
The interior has not been inspected, but it is noted that the six-bay workshop is open to the roof. This building is a largely complete example of a Trinity House depot and is part of a group of maritime buildings located at Penzance harbour.
Local climate
National Lighthouse Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings