The Lookout at Sy 36409305 is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1989. Lookout.
The Lookout at Sy 36409305
- WRENN ID
- bitter-outpost-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1989
- Type
- Lookout
- Address
- The Lookout at Sy 36409305, Charmouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 363 930
- Coordinates
- 50.73356, -2.90257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lookout is a lookout building dating from around 1804, originally constructed for the Excise Service and later altered. It is made of cement-rendered stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has an octagonal shape, with a boarded door on the north side set in a segmental-arched surround, and windows on three sides facing the sea. It was built during the Napoleonic Wars as part of the coastal warning system to guard against invasion, but it primarily served as a base for Excisemen combating smuggling.
Local climate
The Lookout at Sy 36409305 receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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