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

Description

D A Stevenson, completed 1915. 2-stage, circular-plan lighthouse tower. Painted brick with painted long and short margins to openings. Base course; door to W at 1st stage; window at each stage to E; corbelled walkway with cast-iron railings between 2nd stage and lantern; bracketed walkway with cast-iron railings around lantern; domed roof. Tapered circular-plan foghorn tower directly to E of lighthouse. Painted stone. Evenly disposed ventilation holes around upper rim; entrance to W (rear). Flat-roofed, rectangular-plan keeper's house to W of lighthouse. Painted stone with painted long and short margins to openings; painted long and short quoins. 4-pane timber sash and case windows; decorative brackets to cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: not seen, 1998.

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