Noss Head Lighthouse Keepers' Houses

Noss Head Lighthouse Keepers' Houses, designed by Alan Stevenson in 1849, includes a lighthouse and two keeper's houses. The lighthouse features a medium-height circular tower made of carefully finished ashlar stone, accented with contrasting painted ashlar dressings. It has a corbelled wallhead balcony with a cast-iron balustrade and a domed lantern with diamond panes. Surrounding part of the base is a semicircular, single-storey building that has a projecting Egyptian-style entrance.

The pair of single-storey keeper's houses are each four bays wide, constructed from painted tooled ashlar with contrasting painted dressings. Each house has a projecting Egyptian porch with a coved cornice, similar cornices on the projecting outer bays, and lower single-storey, single-bay wings. The rear of the houses features channelled, battered angle pilasters. They have 12-pane glazing, tall corniced chimney stacks, and flat roofs.

The lighthouse and the cottages are connected by a low, coped tooled ashlar wall that encloses a central paved courtyard. Additionally, there is a single-storey, seven-bay range of offices that includes a gighouse with a segmental-headed entrance, former stables, and stores. This range has a later enlarged entrance on the far right and is built from rubble with contrasting tooled dressings, featuring mural vents, a pair of ridge stacks, and a corrugated asbestos roof.