Monument record 461 - LEWIS, BUTT OF LEWIS LIGHTHOUSE

NB56NW 8 5196 6648

(Location cited as NB 519 660). Butt of Lewis Lighthouse. Built c. 1863 by engineers D and T Stevenson. A tall red-brick tower and a shorter fog-horm tower, both circular in section, tapering. The ancillary buildings are of the normal flat-roofed type; the keepers' houses are, unusually, tapering.
J R Hume 1977.

This lighthouse was first lit in 1862. It was fitted with an experimental W/T system soon after 1907, machine-gunned by German aircraft in November 1940 and electrified in 1976. It also monitors the Flannan Isles light.
R W Munro 1979.

J R Hume, 1977a, The Industrial Archaeology of Scotland, 298 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3562.

R W Munro, 1979, Scottish Lighthouses, 138-9, 213, 229, 243, 259, 275 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5814.

Admiralty list of lights, 1980, Admiralty list of Lights and Fog Signals: volume A: British Isles and North Coast of France..., 258, no. 3968 (Bibliographic reference). SWE28639.

W Minchinton, 1984, A Guide to Industrial Archaeology Sites in Britain, 180 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5613.

K and E M Allardyce and Hood, 1986, At Scotland's Edge: a celebration of two hundred years of the lighthouse service in Scotland..., 154, 155 (Bibliographic reference). SWE11890.

J Gifford, 1992, The Buildings of Scotland: Highland and Islands, 613 (Bibliographic reference). SWE20419.