Bound Skerry Lighthouse, Bound Skerry, Out Skerries is a Grade B listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 August 1971. Lighthouse.
Bound Skerry Lighthouse, Bound Skerry, Out Skerries
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-eave-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1971
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- HU 701 718
- Coordinates
- 60.42445, -0.72806
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bound Skerry Lighthouse, located in Out Skerries, was designed by David and Thomas Stevenson and built between 1857 and 1858. This seven-stage lighthouse tower has a circular plan and tapers towards the lantern at the top. The base is made of bull-faced ashlar, while the tower walls and margins are finished with smooth render, all of which is painted.
Access to the lighthouse is via a recessed ladder that leads to a deeply recessed door on the west side. Each stage of the tower features a narrow window, with the second floor having a wider window. There is a band course below a balcony that is corbelled out to support a cast iron handrail surrounding the upper stage. This upper stage consists of a cylindrical murette with portholes and a door. Above the lantern, there is a cast-iron cleaning path with triangular-pane glazing, topped by a dome that has a ventilator at its apex.
Local climate
Bound Skerry Lighthouse, Bound Skerry, Out Skerries sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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