Low Lighthouse, Buddon Ness is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. Lighthouse.
Low Lighthouse, Buddon Ness
- WRENN ID
- rough-outpost-sepia
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- NO 542 308
- Coordinates
- 56.46746, -2.74477
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Low Lighthouse at Buddon Ness is a circular brick structure standing 61 feet high, featuring stone dressings. It was built between 1865 and 1866 by engineer Robert Stevenson. The lighthouse was moved to its current location in 1884.
Local climate
Low 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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