Neist Point Lighthouse, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Lighthouse.
Neist Point Lighthouse, Skye
- WRENN ID
- solitary-bailey-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- NG 126 471
- Coordinates
- 57.42333, -6.78826
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Neist Point Lighthouse, built in 1909 by engineer D Alan Stevenson, consists of a single-storey courtyard range of buildings and a three-stage circular lighthouse. The structure features whitewashed coursed rubble with contrasting painted margins and long and short detailing. A corbelled upper balustraded walkway leads to the lighthouse. The three keepers' houses and ancillary buildings have flat roofs, all enclosed by a rubble wall.
Local climate
Neist Point Lighthouse, Skye 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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