Rattray Head Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Lighthouse.
Rattray Head Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- ragged-sandstone-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- NK 110 578
- Coordinates
- 57.61011, -1.8165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rattray Head Lighthouse was designed by D. Alan Stevenson and completed in 1895. It stands 115 feet high and features a granite platform base. The structure is circular above the base and is finished in white, enamelled pre-clay brick, topped with a lantern and dome.
Local climate
Rattray Head Lighthouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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