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Skye, Ornsay Lighthouse, Keepers' Cottages
Lighthouse Keepers House(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Skye, Ornsay Lighthouse, Keepers' Cottages
Classification Lighthouse Keepers House(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 267918
Site Number NG71SW 8.01
NGR NG 71286 12191
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/267918
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Isle Ornsay Lighthouse D. & T. Stevenson, 1857 A balconied tower standing out like a white finger against the awesome backdrop of the Garbh Criochan, with double range of keepers' cottages hugging the ground above a stone-walled garden close by. Like their twins on Eilean Ban, these stand back to back and were formerly owned by Gavin Maxwell who, finding them '… primordial, without a stick of furniture, and no light or fuel ... eerie beyond belief', converted them a few years after the lighthouse was automated in 1962, into 'a single sumptuous 4-bedroomed residence …'(for a fuller description see p.21 0). Weather and wild seas soon got the better of this romantic dream and neglect took its toll; the holiday house they provide today is somewhat more basic.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG71SW 8.01 71286 12191
