Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 1996. Lighthouse.
Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-oriel-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1996
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse, Cowbridge / Y Bont-Faen, St. Donats
- OS grid reference
- SS 919 680
- Coordinates
- 51.40093, -3.55429
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse is a single-storey building with lined-out render, likely over stone, and a flat roof. The north elevation features a centrally located doorway, flanked by a 2-light transomed window. To the left of the entrance is a wide doorway leading to the engine room. The west elevation has a return with three windows, while the east elevation includes a doorway with narrow side lights and two additional windows. All windows have slightly cambered heads and projecting cills, and the building is topped with an unmoulded cornice and blocking course. On the roof, two fog horns are mounted on a metal drum, facing south-west and south-east.
Inside, the building contains a plain office and engine room. The engine room is equipped with diesel generators and electrical equipment necessary for operating the fog horns.
Local climate
Fog Station at Nash Point Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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