Cottages And Support Buildings, Cape Wrath Lighthouse is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Cottages And Support Buildings, Cape Wrath Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- standing-vestry-crow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NC 259 746
- Coordinates
- 58.6248, -4.99931
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cape Wrath Lighthouse, designed by Robert Stevenson in 1828, features a circular tower made of whitewashed tooled granite. The tower has a corbelled balcony with a cast-iron balustrade surrounding the light. At the base of the lighthouse is a single-storey semi-circular building.
In front of the lighthouse is a single-storey range of 2-3 keepers' cottages, designed in an Egyptian style, which have advanced porches and are also constructed from whitewashed tooled granite. These cottages have tall stacks and flat roofs. They are connected to the lighthouse by low retaining walls that create a small courtyard. The entire area is further enclosed by an outer perimeter wall made of coped rubble, which contains a later range of single-storey cottages and a service building.
Local climate
Cottages And Support Buildings, Cape Wrath Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,630 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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