Tarbatness Lighthouse And Keeper's Cottages is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Tarbatness Lighthouse And Keeper's Cottages
- WRENN ID
- pitched-joist-elm
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 946 875
- Coordinates
- 57.86505, -3.77661
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Keeper's Cottages at Tarbatness Lighthouse were designed by Robert Stevenson in 1830 and rebuilt in 1892. The structure features a tall circular tower set on a semi-circular base, topped with a triangular paned lantern and a domed roof. The tower has a corbelled parapet and is constructed of painted tooled ashlar, with painted broached dressings and contrasting painted margins and banding.
The cottages are a pair of flat-roofed, single-storey, semi-detached buildings, each consisting of four bays. They are harled, with contrasting painted window sills, a base course, and a parapet. The centre windows are paired and flanked by slightly projecting corniced entrance bays. There are also slightly lower single-bay stores with flat roofs set back at the east and west gables. These stores feature a low parapet with painted detailing to imitate crenellation, and some of the original 12-pane glazing remains.
The site is enclosed by a whitewashed rubble wall topped with rounded dressed stone coping.
Local climate
Tarbatness Lighthouse And Keeper's Cottages receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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