Accommodation Block, Rubha Reidh Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 July 2004.
Accommodation Block, Rubha Reidh Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-bracket-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 July 2004
- OS grid reference
- NG 739 918
- Coordinates
- 57.85874, -5.81145
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Jetty at Rubha Reidh Lighthouse is part of a lighthouse complex completed in 1912, designed by engineer David A Stevenson. The complex features a white tower that stands 25 metres high, along with a two-storey, two-bay accommodation block and single-storey, single-bay wings, all topped with flat roofs. One of the wings has a modern glazed lean-to extension. The buildings are all whitewashed, with yellow-painted detailing on the long and short quoins, window and door surrounds, base course, and cornice. In 1986, part of the quarter deck attached to the tower, including the foghorn house, was removed.
Approximately 400 metres northeast of the lighthouse is a concrete jetty, which is connected to the lighthouse by a single trackway. A tramway that once ran along the incline to the jetty from the haulage engine house was removed sometime after 1968. The lighthouse overlooks the Minch and the entrance to Loch Ewe.
Local climate
Accommodation Block, Rubha Reidh Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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