View from west of keepers' house.

Description View from west of keepers' house.

Date 24/2/1993

Catalogue Number C 4269

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 787262

Scope and Content Keepers' house from west, St Abb's Head Lighthouse, Scottish Borders This shows the two-storeyed keepers' houses with their forestairs allowing each keeper to have his own front door. The house features a projecting bay on the left and lean-to extension (right). The walls are all whitewashed with contrasting painted dressings. Part of the perimeter wall can be seen on the far left. The lighthouse on St Abb's Head stands on top of 91m-high cliffs, which are often hidden from the view of shipping by dense fog. The light on top of the tower shines from a height of 78m, as the lighthouse is reached by a flight of steps from the lightkeepers' houses on the cliffs above. St Abb's Head Lighthouse was built in 1862 to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87). The squat tower on its single-storeyed base is surmounted by a triangular-paned lantern with domed top, and stands in a dramatic cliff-top position overlooking the North Sea near Coldingham. The complex also includes a foghorn on a single-storeyed base, and a two-storeyed, M-gabled, four-bayed cottage which was used for keepers' accommodation. The light was automated in 1993, and the keepers' houses were adapted for use as holiday homes in 1999. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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