Lighthouse on Holyhead Breakwater is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1988. Townhouse.
Lighthouse on Holyhead Breakwater
- WRENN ID
- rusted-storey-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Constituency
- Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1988
- Type
- Townhouse
- Address
- Lighthouse on Holyhead Breakwater, Soldier's Point
- OS grid reference
- SH 256 847
- Coordinates
- 53.33091, -4.61928
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The lighthouse on Holyhead Breakwater is a 19.2-meter high, square, tapering masonry tower that stands three stories tall. It is painted in alternating black and white bands and features chamfered angles and a stepped plinth. The openings have raised surrounds and matching recesses. There is roll-moulding over the ground floor, and a moulded cornice supports a walkway that encircles the circular lantern. The lantern itself has latticework glazing and a domed cap, which is topped with a weather vane and a ball finial.
Local climate
Lighthouse on Holyhead Breakwater sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% 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 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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