West Keeper's Cottages, Tarbatness Lighthouse is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Lighthouse, keeper's cottages.

West Keeper's Cottages, Tarbatness Lighthouse

WRENN ID
hidden-quartz-peregrine
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 March 1971
Type
Lighthouse, keeper's cottages
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Robert Stevenson, 1830. Rebuilt 1892. Tall circular tower on semi-circular base, with triangular paned lantern with domed

roof. Corbelled parapet. All painted tooled ashlar, with

painted broached dressings; contrasting painted margins and

banding to tower.

Pair flat roofed, single storey semi-detached keepers' cottages,

each 4 bays. Harled, with contrasting painted window cills,

base course and parapet. Paired centre windows, flanked by

slightly projecting corniced entrance bays. Slightly lower,

single bay stores, also with flat roofs, set back at east and

west gables. All with low parapet with painted detailing to

imitate crenellation. Some 12-pane glazing survives.

Site enclosed by white washed rubble wall and rounded dressed

stone coping.

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