Copinsay Lighthouse is a Grade B listed building in the Orkney Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 December 1971. Lighthouse. 1 related planning application.

Copinsay Lighthouse

WRENN ID
keen-passage-fen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Orkney Islands
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 December 1971
Type
Lighthouse
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Copinsay Lighthouse, designed by D A Stevenson and completed in 1915, is a two-stage, circular-plan lighthouse tower. It features painted brick with painted long and short margins around the openings. The lighthouse has a base course and a door on the west side at the first stage, with a window on each stage facing east. There is a corbelled walkway with cast-iron railings between the second stage and the lantern, as well as a bracketed walkway with cast-iron railings around the lantern, topped with a domed roof.

To the east of the lighthouse is a tapered circular-plan foghorn tower made of painted stone, which has evenly disposed ventilation holes around its upper rim and an entrance on the west side. To the west of the lighthouse is a flat-roofed, rectangular-plan keeper's house, also made of painted stone, featuring painted long and short margins around the openings and painted long and short quoins. The house has four-pane timber sash and case windows and decorative brackets for the cast-iron rainwater goods. The interiors were not seen in 1998.

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