Holborn Head Lighthouse And Keeper's House, Scrabster is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Lighthouse.
Holborn Head Lighthouse And Keeper's House, Scrabster
- WRENN ID
- wild-tower-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- ND 106 706
- Coordinates
- 58.61462, -3.53949
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holborn Head Lighthouse and Keeper's House, built in 1862 by David and Thomas Stevenson, is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular building that serves as the Keeper's dwelling. The short tower rises from the southeast end bay of the south-facing structure, featuring a triangular chamfer that leads to an octagonal base for the light drum, which is surrounded by a wallhead parapet with a cast-iron railing. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted margins.
The building has an off-centre entrance on the first floor, flanked by a narrow window, and accessed by a forestair with a rubble balustrade. The rear (north) elevation displays symmetrical fenestration with lying pane glazing, corniced end stacks, and slate roofs. The property is enclosed by a roughly coped whitewashed rubble wall.
Local climate
Holborn Head Lighthouse And Keeper's House, Scrabster sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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