South Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
South Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons
- WRENN ID
- wild-render-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 118 222
- Coordinates
- 58.17986, -3.50129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The South Tower is a pair of early 19th-century rubble navigation beacons. The lower beacon is a square rubble tower with dummy blind windows on both the ground and first stage. A recess on the northeast side provides a seat. A plain string course and cornice run around the upper stage, and it is topped by four stumpy, round angle pinnacles. The upper beacon is a short, round rubble tower built on a plinth, with a plain string course and cornice circling a crenellated parapet. These beacons are believed to have been "transimarks," navigation aids used to guide ships safely into Berriedale shore when viewed in alignment from a boat at sea. They are positioned one behind the other on the cliff top, and the seated recess in the lower beacon likely offered shelter for the person watching for boats.
Local climate
South Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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