Old High Lighthouse, Buddon Ness is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 January 1980. Lighthouse.

Old High Lighthouse, Buddon Ness

WRENN ID
patient-rood-woodpecker
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 January 1980
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NO 539 309
Coordinates
56.46873, -2.74977
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old Buddon Ness lighthouse, dating from around 1820, is a circular lighthouse that is rendered and painted. It is attached to the northeast gable of a two-storey, four-bay lighthouse keeper's house. Originally 85 feet high, it has been truncated and is now topped with a conical, tiled roof, reaching roughly the same height as the adjoining keeper's accommodation. The lighthouse features three small window openings around its base. The lighthouse keeper's house includes a gabled porch on the front elevation and an extension at the rear. Buddon Ness is located at the southern tip of Barry Links, at the northern entrance to the Firth of Tay, south of Carnoustie.

Local climate

Old High Lighthouse, Buddon Ness receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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