Stoer Head Lighthouse
Also known as
Stoerhead Lighthouse; Cluas Deas; Point Of Stoer Head, Lighthouse And Lighthouse Keeper's Dwellings; North Minch
Classifications: Lighthouse(19th Century),Lighthouse Keepers House(19th Century) (Plural)
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Local authority: Highland
Parish: Assynt
Former region: Highland
Former district: Sutherland
Former county: Sutherland
Further details
Site number: NC03SW 6
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 4524
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Stoer Head Lighthouse, NC03SW 6, Ordnance Survey index card,…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Oblique aerial view of Stoer Head Lighthouse, looking SE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
Oblique aerial view of Stoer Head Lighthouse, looking SE.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
Oblique aerial view of the Stoer Head lighthouse, taken from…
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
Oblique aerial view of the Stoer Head lighthouse, taken from…
RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital
Stoer Head Lighthouse General View
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Stoer Head Lighthouse General View
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Stoer Head Lighthouse General View
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
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Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 648432
NC03SW 6 00370 32967
Stoerhead Lighthouse [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.
(Location cited as NC 003 330). Stoer Head Lighthouse, built 1870, engineers D and T Stevenson. A short circular-section tower linked at two levels to a flat-roofed two-storey block of keepers' houses.
J R Hume 1977.
This shore lighthouse guards the E (mainland) side of the northern entrance into the Minch. It was built by David and Thomas Stevenson in 1870, and became a major automatic light in 1978. The (former) keepers' house lie adjacent, and remain in short-term residential use.
Stoer Head (Point of Stoer) is at NC 022 356.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 August 2008.
R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; S Krauskopf 2001.
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Allardyce and Hood K and E M. (1986) At Scotland's edge: a celebration of two hundred years of the lighthouse service in Scotland and the Isle of Man, Glasgow. Page(s): 78-9, 154 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.6.4.ALL
Gifford J. (1992) Highland and Islands, The buildings of Scotland series. London. Page(s): 594 RCAHMS Shelf Number: Ref
Hume J R. (1977a) The industrial archaeology of Scotland, 2, the Highlands and Islands. London. Page(s): 310 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.4.11.HUM
Krauskopf S. (2001) Scottish Lighthouses, Belfast. Page(s): 11, 16, 22, 52 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.6.4.KRA
Morrison-Low A D. (2010) Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses, Edinburgh. Page(s): 262 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.6.4.MOR
Munro R W. (1979) Scottish lighthouses, Stornoway. Page(s): 129, 130, 243, 255, 275 pl. p. 155 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.6.4.MUN
[Admiralty]. (1980) Admiralty list of lights and fog signals: volume A: British Isles and north coast of France from Dunkerque to entrance to Goulet de Brest including North Sea oil and gas production installations, {s.l.}. Page(s): 252, no. 3882 RCAHMS Shelf Number: J.6.4.ADM
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