Dunnet Head Lighthouse

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.