The round white tower is 15 metres in height, set on the extremity of the headland two miles E.N.E. of Lynmouth.
The optic is a 1st Order dioptric apparatus, eight panels in two groups of four, revolving on a motor driven mercury float pedestal.
Lynmouth Foreland Lighthouse was automated in 1994 and is now monitored and controlled from Trinity House’s Planning Centre in Harwich, Essex.