Burnham Low Lighthouse on Foreshore Off Gore Road is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Lighthouse.
Burnham Low Lighthouse on Foreshore Off Gore Road
- WRENN ID
- vacant-nave-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Burnham Low Lighthouse on Foreshore Off Gore Road, Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 298 503
- Coordinates
- 51.24844, -3.00585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burnham Low Lighthouse is a mid-19th century lighthouse located on the foreshore off Gore Road in Burnham-on-Sea. It is a square, weatherboarded timber structure topped with a hipped metal sheeting roof that features an oblong projection at its apex. On the seaward side, there is a 2-light casement window. The lighthouse is supported by nine wooden piers, some of which have plate metal reinforcement. At the rear, there is a wooden open-tread staircase with two flights and a wooden handrail, leading to a metal door. The entire structure is whitewashed, with a horizontal red stripe painted on the seaward side.
Local climate
Burnham Low Lighthouse on Foreshore Off Gore Road receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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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