Leading Light, Cliff Terrace, Buckie is a Grade C listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1989. Lighthouse.

Leading Light, Cliff Terrace, Buckie

WRENN ID
eternal-casement-fog
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 April 1989
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
NJ 430 658
Coordinates
57.67866, -2.95586
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Leading Light, located at Cliff Terrace in Buckie, was likely built in 1878 by Munro and Company, Engineers, from Arbroath. It is a tall, slender, cylindrical metal structure topped with a domed apex that houses a lamp. The light stands on a stepped concrete circular base.

Local climate

Leading Light, Cliff Terrace, Buckie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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