Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. A Georgian Lighthouse.
Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- moated-hammer-mallow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings, South End
- OS grid reference
- SD 230 620
- Coordinates
- 54.04873, -3.17725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walney Lighthouse, built in 1790, is a significant structure located on Walney Island, along with two attached cottages and an outbuilding. It was commissioned by the Lancaster Quay Commissioners and features dressed, painted stone for the lighthouse and stucco for the cottages, both topped with slate roofs. The buildings form a U-shaped group, with the octagonal lighthouse connecting the pair of two-storey cottages and a single-storey outbuilding, all arranged around a pebbled courtyard.
The lighthouse is tapered and has slit windows, with an iron balcony surrounding the fully-glazed lantern housing and a hipped roof topped with a finial. The cottage on the left has a door in the one-storey link to the lighthouse and features two 20th-century six-pane casements on each floor. The cottage on the right includes a gabled porch with a door on the left side and six-pane sash windows, with the upper windows set in half-dormers. Both cottages have coped gables and end and central stacks. The outbuilding has two boarded doors and two 12-pane casements, with a monoclinal roof.
The lighthouse was authorized by an Act of Parliament in 1789 and constructed using stone from Overton near Lancaster at a cost of £1,100. The lighthouse is particularly important within this group of buildings.
Local climate
Walney Lighthouse with Two Attached Cottages and Outbuildings sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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