Pierhead Light, North Pier, Burghead Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 May 1974.

Pierhead Light, North Pier, Burghead Harbour

WRENN ID
odd-grate-hemlock
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 May 1974
OS grid reference
NJ 106 689
Coordinates
57.70157, -3.50045
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North Pier at Burghead Harbour was designed by Thomas Telford and constructed between 1807 and 1810, with a later angled extension and jetty added. The pier is built from tooled squared rubble with tooled dressings. The northern face features a high stepped sea wall that has a pulvinated string course on the seaward side. At the extreme end of the pier, there is a small later whitewashed concrete beacon.

Local climate

Pierhead Light, North Pier, Burghead Harbour 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 lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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