Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1998. Look-out tower.
Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls
- WRENN ID
- keen-string-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1998
- Type
- Look-out tower
- OS grid reference
- SY 660 773
- Coordinates
- 50.59531, -2.48133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Coastguard Station Look-out Tower, built around 1886 for the Admiralty Coastguards, is a notable structure located in Wyke Regis. It is constructed of red brick in Flemished bond, featuring Portland stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has Portland stone coping along with corbelled kneelers at the gable ends.
The tower is square in shape and has two storeys. On the north side, there is a plank door with a flat brick arch leading to a store on the ground floor. The east side features external stairs that lead to the look-out, which are made of brick with stone treads and a simple wrought-iron balustrade. At the top of the stairs, there is a 20th-century porch. The first-floor look-out windows on the south and west sides are fitted with plate glass. The tower also has integral yard walls with curved profiles that ramp up on the north and east sides. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Coastguard Station Look Out Tower and Adjoining Walls receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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