North Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
North Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons
- WRENN ID
- bitter-plaster-gorse
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 119 223
- Coordinates
- 58.181, -3.49855
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The North Tower is a pair of early 19th-century rubble navigation beacons. The lower beacon is a square rubble tower with dummy blind windows in both the ground and first stages. A recessed area on the north-east side provides a seat. A plain string course and cornice runs around the upper stage, topped by four stumpy round angle pinnacles. The upper beacon is a short round rubble tower on a plinth, with a plain string course and cornice supporting a crenellated parapet. These beacons appear to have functioned as "transimarks," navigation aids enabling safe entry into Berriedale shore when viewed in alignment from a boat at sea; they are positioned one behind the other on the cliff top. The seated recess in the lower beacon would have provided shelter for those watching for boats.
Local climate
North Tower, Berriedale Navigation Beacons receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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