Ardnamurchan Lighthouse

The Sundial at Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is a significant structure designed by Alan Stevenson and completed in 1848. The lighthouse itself is a tall, seven-storey building made of pink tooled ashlar granite, standing 55 meters high. It features a semi-circular single-storey projection at its base on the west side. The entrance porch is bold yet shallow, with plain ramped architraves, a deep cavetto moulded cornice, and a shallow triangular block cornice that displays the date.

The tower has a regular battered profile with slit windows on the west side, visible from the first to the sixth storey. At the top, there is a projecting wallhead walk with a cast-iron balustrade, which is corbelled out on pointed-headed mock machiolations. The domed light is adorned with triangular lattice glazing.

Accompanying the lighthouse are the keepers' cottages, also designed by Alan Stevenson in 1848. These are a pair of single-storey buildings with a total of ten bays. The entrances are located in bays four and seven, which, along with bays two and nine (each featuring a single window), are slightly projecting. The cottages have 12-pane sash windows, an eaves band, cavetto cornices, and stepped blocking courses on the projecting bays. They have flat roofs with encircling blocking courses and tall single and paired stacks topped with cavetto copes.

The keepers' houses and the lighthouse are connected by a low, coped wall made of tooled ashlar granite, which encloses a central court.

The sundial itself is a painted fluted cast-iron structure of standard design.

Additionally, a foghorn is mounted on the roof of a small square concrete building, which is linked via a steel pipe for compressed air to a harled engine house built around 1940.

There is also a former steading from 1848, which is a long, single-storey, slightly irregular seven-bay rectangular building made of grey rubble with tooled pink granite dressings. The east-facing front features a wide, segmental-headed arched entrance with double leaf doors, flanking windows, and additional door windows in the outer bays, which served as a barn, byres, and former workshops. It has two ridge stacks and a piended slate roof, along with a roughly coped outer perimeter wall.