Stoer Head Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.
Stoer Head Lighthouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-pillar-clover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Stoer Head Lighthouse, IV27 4JH
- OS grid reference
- NC 003 329
- Coordinates
- 58.23999, -5.40258
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Stoer Head Lighthouse was designed by D. & T. Stevenson and completed in 1870. It features a short circular tower that is connected to the keepers' dwellings at two levels. The structure is constructed of white painted tooled ashlar. The lighthouse has a projecting walkway around the light, which is equipped with a cast-iron handrail.
The accompanying two-storey, three-bay dwelling has a flat roof and is divided into two houses, each with a single-storey lean-to extension at the gable. The windows are fitted with multi-pane glazing. The property is enclosed by a whitewashed rubble wall that is coped, featuring three gate piers made of squared rubble topped with pyramidal caps. There is one wide gate and one narrow gate for access.
Local climate
Stoer Head Lighthouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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