Lighthouse, Mossbank is a Grade C listed building in the Shetland Islands local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Lighthouse.
Lighthouse, Mossbank
- WRENN ID
- last-stronghold-sepia
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Shetland Islands
- Constituency
- Orkney and Shetland MP: Mr Alistair Carmichael (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Lighthouse
- OS grid reference
- HU 453 747
- Coordinates
- 60.4537, -1.17699
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The lighthouse at Mossbank is a metal tower set on a concrete base. It has an octagonal shaft that rises to a balcony, which is surrounded by a handrail. At the top, there is a circular lantern made up of an apron, curved glass, and a conical roof with a domed ventilator. Next to the lighthouse, there is a timber shed with a felt roof, which is cable-stayed to concrete pads.
Local climate
Lighthouse, Mossbank sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 98% 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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