Lighthouses And Keepers' Cottages, Muckle Skerry is a Grade A listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Lighthouse.

Lighthouses And Keepers' Cottages, Muckle Skerry

WRENN ID
waning-cobble-russet
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Constituency
Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Type
Lighthouse
OS grid reference
ND 464 784
Coordinates
58.69017, -2.92471
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building consists of lighthouses and keepers' cottages located on Muckle Skerry. The short tower on the south was built in 1794 and is now disused. The tall tower on the north was constructed in the 19th century. The keepers' houses feature platformed roofs, and there is a boundary wall surrounding the property.

Local climate

Lighthouses And Keepers' Cottages, Muckle Skerry receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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