Cumbrae Lighthouse, Little Cumbrae Island is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 April 1971.
Cumbrae Lighthouse, Little Cumbrae Island
- WRENN ID
- gilded-minaret-bone
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- North Ayrshire
- Constituency
- North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 137 515
- Coordinates
- 55.72115, -4.96678
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The present lighthouse, situated on the west shore of Little Cumbrae Island, replaces an earlier structure built to the design of Robert Stevenson, grandfather of R.L.S.
Local climate
Cumbrae Lighthouse, Little Cumbrae Island sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- 6 Cardiff Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island
- 8 Cardiff Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island
- 4 Cardiff Street, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island
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- Mid Kirkton, Millport, Great Cumbrae Island
- Including Boundary Wall And Gatepiers, Cumbrae Parish Church (Church Of Scotland), Bute Terrace, Millport