Old Monach Lighthouse

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Planning Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish North Uist NGR NF 59282 62723 Coordinates 59282, 862723 — David & Thomas Stevenson, engineers, 1864. Battered, circular lighthouse tower with 2-storey, 3-bay, flat-roofed keeper's house at base. Brick (unpainted) with ashlar lintels and cills, some openings with ashlar dressings and brick relieving arches. Deep ashlar base course. LIGHTHOUSE: 7 vertically-aligned arrowslit windows, that to 3rd level in large blinded segmental-arched opening, further (8th) window off-set above, abutting band course and jettied ironwork walkway and parapet. Lantern above with diagonal astragals and finialled domed cap. KEEPER'S HOUSE: link bay projecting from base of tower to rectangular-plan house with single storey flat-roofed wing to right and lean-to wing (roofless) to left; blocked openings to each floor. Flat-coped ashlar stacks with full-complement of polygonal cans. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: coped rubble boundary walls with square-section, pyramidally-coped ashlar gatepiers. D — Discontinued service 1942, the lens has been removed but the apparatus has been retained. A modern light no replaces the function fulfilled by the Monach Lighthouse. Monach, Ardnamurchan, and Butt of Lewis lighthouses are the only ones in Scotland built in brick. The lighthouse is sited south-south-west of North Uist, on Shillay.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.