Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567143
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, D. & T. Stevenson, 1862 A solitary, lantern-lit column marking the northernmost limit of the Long Island, this is one of several lighthouses that punctuate the Hebridean coast from spray-swept cliffs and skerries. Mounted on an awesome platform of serrated gneiss, it is unusually tall and built of red brick, like that on the Monach Isles. It was the last to succumb to automation (in 1997). The assistant keepers' accommodation is a two-storey range, taking the less usual form of one house above another, with an external stair, as at Corran Ferry. Keeper's cottage (also flat-roofed) in long, detached range alongside boiler and engine houses; stables opposite.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk