Davaar Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Lighthouse.

Davaar Lighthouse

WRENN ID
half-hinge-laurel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 August 1980
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NR 760 206
Coordinates
55.4281, -5.54049
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Davaar Lighthouse was built in 1854 and features a short, circular tower that is lime-washed. At the base of the tower, there is a small piended building. The keepers' houses are a single-storey row constructed of rubble with a platform roof. Surrounding the property is a lime-washed boundary wall.

Local climate

Davaar Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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