Lighthouse, Rubha Nan Gall, Mull is a Grade C listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1980. Lighthouse.
Lighthouse, Rubha Nan Gall, Mull
- WRENN ID
- winter-outpost-dawn
- Grade
- C
- 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
- NM 507 570
- Coordinates
- 56.63866, -6.06618
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a small lighthouse located at Rubha Nan Gall on the island of Mull, built in 1857 by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson. The structure is made of brick and is limewashed. Above the door, there is an inscription that reads '1857/D & T Stevenson, Engineers'. The lighthouse is situated on an old site on the mainland, adjacent to a now-empty enclosing rubble wall.
Local climate
Lighthouse, Rubha Nan Gall, Mull sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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