Deactivated 1921 ARLHS number ENG-049 Opened 1850 | Construction screw-pile tower Height 23 m Year first constructed 1850 | |
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Location offshore of Frinton-on-SeaEssexEngland Tower shape hexagonal frustum tower with keeper's quarter, balcony and lantern Managing agent Gunfleet Sands Windfarm Similar Burnham‑on‑Sea Round Tower, Pakefield Lighthouse, Burnham‑on‑Sea High Lighthouse, Gorleston (Range Rear) Lig, Hilbre Island Lighthouse | ||
Gunfleet Lighthouse is a screw-pile lighthouse lying in the North Sea, six miles off the coast at Frinton-on-Sea in Essex constructed in 1850 by James Walker of Trinity House. George Henry Saunders was the contractor. Walker and Burges were the Engineers. It is 74 feet (23 m) in height and hexagonal in plan; mounted on seven piles forming a steel lattice and originally painted red. The living accommodation comprises a living room, bedroom, kitchen/washroom and storeroom.
It was deactivated in 1921. though still in use as an automated weather station by the Port of London Authority, and marks the northern limit of their jurisdiction.
In 1974 an attempt was made to use the lighthouse as a base for the pirate radio station Radio Atlantis but this was thwarted by the authorities.
