Leading light is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 August 1998. Tower with cottages.
Leading light
- WRENN ID
- fading-gallery-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1998
- Type
- Tower with cottages
- Address
- Leading light, Saint Ishmaels, Haverfordwest, St. Ishmael'S
- OS grid reference
- SM 847 059
- Coordinates
- 51.71131, -5.11772
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Leading Light is a tower with two attached cottages, now functioning as a single house. It features whitewashed stucco and a short front tower that faces southwest, adorned with a heavy two-step cornice and a parapet, which is cut down in the center at the front. There is a blocked opening in the front wall. Behind the tower is a single-storey U-shaped block that has a broad black-painted cornice band and a low blocking course. Each side of the tower has a two-window range, while the sides of the block have four windows. The windows are primarily 20th-century plastic, with some serving as secondary glazing in front of the original four-pane sashes, of which two still remain on the west side. The rear of the building has two wings, with a two-window arrangement on the left and a three-window arrangement on the right, each featuring a door in the inward-facing walls. The flat roof is equipped with two chimneys on the east side and three on the west side.
Local climate
Leading light sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. 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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