Breakwater Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 February 1996. House.
Breakwater Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-gable-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Breakwater Lighthouse, Barry Docks, Barry
- OS grid reference
- ST 125 665
- Coordinates
- 51.39115, -3.25862
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Breakwater Lighthouse is a round structure made of plain iron plate. It features a flared base with flanges that are bolted to the ground. The windows have shallow pedimented architraves. There is a gallery supported by cast-iron brackets, which includes a trellis walkway, iron posts, and tubular rails. At the top, there is a polygonal light stage with a dome and a weathervane above it.
Local climate
Breakwater Lighthouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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