Leading Lights, Montrose is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1999. Light tower.

Leading Lights, Montrose

WRENN ID
other-wall-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Angus
Constituency
Angus and Perthshire Glens MP: Dave Doogan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 March 1999
Type
Light tower
OS grid reference
NO 721 569
Coordinates
56.70354, -2.45673
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Leading Lights is a circular stone tower built in 1818 by Robert Stevenson. The tower is harled and painted, featuring windows on four levels that face the sea, with a doorway located on the north side. It tapers towards a gallery supported by a cast-iron ring, which is surrounded by a balustrade. At the top, there is a lantern housed in an octagonal structure with an ogee roof and a ball finial. The upper three levels have 8-pane timber sash and case windows.

Local climate

Leading Lights, Montrose receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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