Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse and Attached Yard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1990. A C19 Cottage.

Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse and Attached Yard Wall

WRENN ID
riven-wattle-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
New Forest National Park
Constituency
New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1990
Type
Cottage
Address
Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse and Attached Yard Wall, Milford-On-Sea
OS grid reference
SZ 317 899
Coordinates
50.70837, -1.55107
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse, built around 1852 for Trinity House, is a Grade II listed building. It features a brick base covered in stucco that is scored to resemble ashlar, topped with a coated Welsh slate roof. The cottage is a single storey with three bays across the front and two bays deep, including an outshut and a walled yard on the left side. Notable architectural details include a chamfered plinth, sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals, smaller six-pane windows, and boxed eaves.

The central gabled porch has a blind window beneath a coat of arms, with moulded kneelers supporting the coped gable. To the left of the porch is a six-panel door, with a blind doorway to the right. Flanking windows and a small window in the outshut add to the façade. The hipped roof slopes down over the outshut and features a central stack with four attached flues that have chamfered arises, a cornice, and tall pots, along with a similar single-flue chimney on the outshut. The rear of the building has a narrow central window flanked by larger windows.

On the left return, there is a boarded door with a window to its right, and a privy with a ventilated board door on the right return. The yard wall, approximately 1.5 meters tall, encloses a rectangular yard and includes a gateway with plain piers on the rear side. Inside, many original features remain, such as panelled doors, wall cupboards, panelling below windows, fireplaces with plain surrounds and metal grates, gas lights, and a kitchen dresser in the front left room. In the scullery, there is a set pot, sink, and pump with a leaf terminal handle. The cottage was noted to be in a state of disrepair at the time of inspection.

Local climate

Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage at Hurst Lighthouse and Attached Yard Wall receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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