Keepers' House, Dunnet Head Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Lighthouse.
Keepers' House, Dunnet Head Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- carved-portal-frost
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Keepers' House at Dunnet Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse complex designed by engineer Robert Stevenson in 1831. It features a short circular tower with a semi-circular single-storey building at its base. The tower has a corbelled parapet topped with a lattice cast-iron balustrade and a circular domed light made of lattice panes. The structure is finished in white-painted tooled ashlar.
The keepers' houses consist of a pair of single-storey, four-bay homes, each with an advanced off-centre bay and slightly lower outer single-storey, single-bay additions. These houses are also made of white-painted tooled ashlar, with contrasting painted cills and a base course, and they feature 12-pane glazing, although modern windows have been added to the later extensions. The buildings have an eaves band and a blocking course, with flat roofs.
Additionally, there is a later block that includes a single-storey, three-bay house connected to a four-bay equipment room. A fluted cast-iron sundial is present on the site.
The lighthouse and the keepers' houses are enclosed by a coped rubble wall, which includes a pair of square tooled ashlar gate piers with simple square caps.
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