Gourdon, Brae Road, Rear Leading Light is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 September 2013. Light tower.

Gourdon, Brae Road, Rear Leading Light

WRENN ID
worn-doorway-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Constituency
West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine MP: Andrew Bowie (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 September 2013
Type
Light tower
OS grid reference
NO 826 708
Coordinates
56.82913, -2.28655
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Rear Leading Light at Gourdon, located on Brae Road, is a late 19th-century cylindrical tower made of painted brick, situated on a hillside above the harbour. It features a battered base and an eaves course of diagonally-set bricks. The tower has a conical roof covered with replacement grey slates. Access to the building is via a timber platform leading to a boarded timber entrance door. On the south side, which faces the sea, there is a projecting lantern window positioned below the eaves.

Inside, as observed in 2013, there is a timber spiral staircase and a replacement timber roof structure.

Local climate

Gourdon, Brae Road, Rear Leading Light receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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