Killantringan Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.
Killantringan Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- weathered-rubblework-pearl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- NW 981 564
- Coordinates
- 54.86186, -5.1469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Killantringan Lighthouse, designed by engineer D A Stevenson in 1900, features a tapering four-stage circular-plan lighthouse alongside a rectangular-plan keeper's house that is single and two-storey with five bays. The exterior is finished with harl and sandstone ashlar dressings, including a base course, eaves course, advanced quoins, and long and short surrounds to openings.
The lighthouse has a timber entrance door on the northwest side and an inscription within a flat pediment stating "1900 erected by the commissioners of northern lighthouses D A Stevenson engineer." It has single windows at the second and third stages on the northwest and southeast elevations, a metal circular handrail, and a circular light casing. There is an adjoining flat-roofed building to the southwest, which has three single windows on the southeast and southwest elevations, and a timber door on the northeast elevation.
The keeper's cottage features an advanced gabled timber entrance porch with foliate capitals and decorative timber bargeboarding. It has a two-leaf timber door with the inscription "In Salutem Omnium 1900" within the pediment, and a single window aligned at the first floor. The flanking bays have regular fenestration, with single windows at ground level in the single-storey bays to the outer left and right.
On the northwest (rear) elevation, there is a single window at ground level in the centre and a pair of single windows aligned at the first floor, with regular fenestration in the flanking bays. The outer left and right have two single windows in single-storey bays, and a timber and glass door replaces a single window on the outer right. A lean-to is located to the left.
The northeast elevation includes a single window and an entrance to the right, while the southwest elevation has two single windows to the left. The keeper's cottage features four-pane timber sash and case windows, a flat roof, corniced wallhead stacks, and circular cans, along with cast-iron rainwater goods.
The interior was not seen in 1997. Additional features on the site include a foghorn located to the southwest of the lighthouse, various flat-roofed outbuildings, coped painted rubble boundary walls, square-plan gatepiers with pyramidal caps, and decorative ironwork on the timber porch.
Local climate
Killantringan Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 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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