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Architecture Notes

Event ID 641561

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641561

HY34NE 3.00 39200 49902

HY34NE 3.01 39235 49899 Perimeter Wall and Gate-piers

(Location cited as HY 392 499). Noup Head lighthouse, Westray, completed 1898 by engineer D Alan Stevenson. A short tapering circular section tower with walkways at two levels. There are single-storey, flat-roofed keepers' houses, with prominent quoins. Unmanned since 1964.

J R Hume 1977.

The semi-detached single-storey keepers' houses mentioned by J R Hume are depicted on the 2nd edition OS 6-inch Map (Fife and Kinross, 1901, sheet LXXIV), but have since been demolished.

Information from RCAHMS (ITMP), January 2008

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