Girdleness Lighthouse, Greyhope Road, Aberdeen is a Grade A listed building in the Aberdeen City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1967. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.

Girdleness Lighthouse, Greyhope Road, Aberdeen

WRENN ID
lone-buttress-mint
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeen City
Constituency
Aberdeen South MP: Douglas Lumsden (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Lighthouse
Address
Girdleness Lighthouse, Greyhope Road, Aberdeen, AB11 8QX
OS grid reference
NJ 971 053
Coordinates
57.13901, -2.04858
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Girdleness Lighthouse, located on Greyhope Road in Aberdeen, was designed by Robert Stevenson and completed in 1833. The lighthouse is circular and tapered, featuring a corbelled gallery on the third floor and an iron cupola at the top. The main light was modified in 1847 and again in 1890.

The approach to the lighthouse is flanked by flat-roofed single-storey lodges, with an archway situated between them. Additionally, there is a fog siren, dating from around 1880 to 1890, which faces southeast. This cast-iron siren horn moves in a semi-circle and is mounted on a cast iron concrete block podium. It is powered by compressed air supplied from an engine house located to the north of the road.

Local climate

Girdleness Lighthouse, Greyhope Road, Aberdeen receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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