Lighthouse, Eilean Mor, Flannan Isles is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 September 2001. Lighthouse, keeper's house.
Lighthouse, Eilean Mor, Flannan Isles
- WRENN ID
- second-latch-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 September 2001
- Type
- Lighthouse, keeper's house
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
David Alan Stevenson, engineer, 1899; George Lawson, Rutherglen, builder; automated 1971. Battered, circular, 3-stage lighthouse tower with single storey, flat-roofed, L-plan keeper's house clasping base at NE corner, sited on steeply falling site. Whitewashed squared rubble with raised margins. Base eaves and blocking courses.
LIGHTHOUSE: 23m high. Tall 1st stage with blocked opening at ground, part-blocked opening approximately half way and window close to top; corbelled walkway giving way to 2nd stage with modern steel railings, row of small glazed portholes and door; narrower pierced cast-iron decking above surmounted by lamp with diagonal astragals and ball-finialled domed cap with weathervane.
INTERIOR: serpentine cast-iron staircase with timber handrail; boarded timber deck with iron girders supported in fluted pilasters and timber-moulded porthole openings.
KEEPER'S HOUSE: principal (S) elevation with 3 windows in advanced section with modern gantry supporting solar panels (see Notes), and recessed entrance bay with door and window. N elevation with door and 3 windows, E elevation with door and window.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: saddleback-coped, snecked roughly squared rubble and random rubble boundaries with pyramidally-coped square-section gatepiers.
Detailed Attributes
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