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
Monach Lighthouse, located on the Monach Islands, was designed by engineers David and Thomas Stevenson in 1864. It features a battered, circular lighthouse tower and a two-storey, three-bay keeper's house with a flat roof at its base. The structure is made of unpainted brick, with ashlar lintels and cills, and some openings adorned with ashlar dressings and brick relieving arches. A deep ashlar base course supports the tower.
The lighthouse has seven vertically-aligned arrowslit windows, with the third-level window set in a large blinded segmental-arched opening. An additional, offset eighth window is located above, adjacent to a band course and a jettied ironwork walkway with a parapet. At the top, the lantern features diagonal astragals and a finialled domed cap.
The keeper's house connects to the base of the tower and includes a rectangular-plan house with a single-storey flat-roofed wing on the right and a roofless lean-to wing on the left. There are blocked openings on each floor. The flat-coped ashlar stacks have a full complement of polygonal cans.
Surrounding the property are coped rubble boundary walls with square-section, pyramidally-coped ashlar gatepiers.
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