Rhinns Of Islay Lighthouse, Orsay, Islay is a Grade A listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Lighthouse.

Rhinns Of Islay Lighthouse, Orsay, Islay

WRENN ID
seventh-finial-moth
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NR 163 514
Coordinates
55.67308, -6.51318
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rhinns Of Islay Lighthouse, located on Orsay in Islay, was built in 1825 by engineer Robert Stevenson. The lighthouse is constructed from rubble and consists of a tower with five stages, featuring string courses. It houses a dioptric flashing light designed by Barbier and Bernard in Paris in 1896. Inside, there is a cast-iron turnpike stair and a round-ended vestibule at the ground floor, topped with a platform roof. The lighthouse is flanked by two keeper houses, which are Georgian in style, single-storey, also made of rubble, and have flat lead roofs with octagonal chimneys.

Local climate

Rhinns Of Islay Lighthouse, Orsay, Islay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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