Toward Point Lighthouse, Toward Point is a Grade B listed building in the Argyll and Bute local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1980. Lighthouse.

Toward Point Lighthouse, Toward Point

WRENN ID
patient-rafter-alder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Argyll and Bute
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1980
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NS 136 672
Coordinates
55.86207, -4.97972
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Toward Point Lighthouse, built in 1812, features a circular tower made of stugged ashlar stone and has an iron walkway below the beacon. Attached to the lighthouse is a house with a sloping slate roof and polygonal dressed chimneys.

Local climate

Toward Point Lighthouse, Toward Point sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,740 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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