Kyleakin Lighthouse, Eilean Ban is a Grade B listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Kyleakin Lighthouse, Eilean Ban
- WRENN ID
- third-lintel-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 745 269
- Coordinates
- 57.2777, -5.74246
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kyleakin Lighthouse, built in 1857 by David and Thomas Stevenson, is a prominent example of a lighthouse of its type, situated on the small island of Eilean Ban in the Kyle of Lochalsh. The lighthouse itself comprises a 70ft circular tower supporting the light, standing on a rocky promontory and linked to a pair of former keepers' houses by a five-span, plate-iron access bridge and a concrete causeway. The keepers’ houses are single-storey structures, white harled with contrasting margins. The lighthouse was one of the first to utilise a fixed condensing light and was automated in 1960, converted to run on acetylene gas at that time. It was decommissioned in 1993. The island was acquired by Gavin Maxwell in 1963 and the keepers' houses were later restored as a warden's residence and museum. The island now functions as a support for the Skye Road Bridge, completed in 1995.
Local climate
Kyleakin Lighthouse, Eilean Ban sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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