Lighthouse, Barns Ness is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1986.
Lighthouse, Barns Ness
- WRENN ID
- dim-cupola-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- OS grid reference
- NT 723 772
- Coordinates
- 55.98728, -2.4453
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
South Keeper's Cottage at Barns Ness Lighthouse was designed by engineer D A Stevenson in 1901. The structure features a tall, slightly tapering circular tower that is rendered and accented with long and short ashlar dressings. At the top of the tower is a circular lantern above a gallery, which has triangular lattice panes and a domed top.
The keepers' cottages consist of a pair of single-storey, flat-roofed buildings, each with three bays and also rendered with long and short ashlar dressings. Each cottage has a central door flanked by two windows, featuring a four-pane glazing pattern. There are three coped stacks on the roofs. Surrounding the cottages is a railed retaining wall that includes two vehicle entrances, each marked by square, coped gatepiers.
Local climate
Lighthouse, Barns Ness receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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 0.3°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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