Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567192
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567192
Breasclete (Breascleit) Lighthouse keepers'/coastguard's houses, 1899 A double-pile block built as a shore station for families of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse employees. Crowstepped gables, heavy eaves cornices, prominent wallhead chimneys and other pleasing architectural flourishes are picked out in red ashlar against whitewashed walls. In the large walled garden, a fluted sundial.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
