Monach Lighthouse, Shillay, Monach Islands is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Lighthouse, keeper's house.
Monach Lighthouse, Shillay, Monach Islands
- WRENN ID
- peeling-tracery-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse, keeper's house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David & Thomas Stevenson, engineers, 1864. Battered, circular lighthouse tower with 2-storey, 3-bay, flat-roofed keeper's house at base. Brick (unpainted) with ashlar lintels and cills, some openings with ashlar dressings and brick relieving arches. Deep ashlar base course.
LIGHTHOUSE: 7 vertically-aligned arrowslit windows, that to 3rd level in large blinded segmental-arched opening, further (8th) window off-set above, abutting band course and jettied ironwork walkway and parapet.
Lantern above with diagonal astragals and finialled domed cap.
KEEPER'S HOUSE: link bay projecting from base of tower to rectangular-plan house with single storey flat-roofed wing to right and lean-to wing (roofless) to left; blocked openings to each floor. Flat-coped ashlar stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble boundary walls with square-section, pyramidally-coped ashlar gatepiers.
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Detailed Attributes
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