Butt Of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis is a Grade A listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.
Butt Of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- odd-span-yew
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- Address
- Butt Of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis, HS2 0XH
- OS grid reference
- NB 519 664
- Coordinates
- 58.5156, -6.26089
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, designed by engineers D & T Stevenson in 1862, features a lighthouse tower and a separate foghorn tower, which may have been built later. The lighthouse is notable for its tall, battered circular shape and is capped by a standard domed lantern. It has a plain margined doorway at the ground level and a line of five windows above.
The accompanying foghorn tower is smaller but still tall and circular, also with a battered design. It has a flat top with an encircling iron handrail and a horn. Adjacent to the lighthouse is a two-storey flat-roofed block with paired stacks over the end walls, along with lower adjoining ranges. There is also a detached, longer single-storey houseblock that is flat-roofed and features contrasting long and short window dressings. The garden area is enclosed by rubble walls and includes a standard cast-iron sundial.
Local climate
Butt Of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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