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Latitude: 58.2952 / 58°17'42"N
Longitude: -3.2895 / 3°17'22"W
OS Eastings: 324504
OS Northings: 934788
OS Grid: ND245347
Mapcode National: GBR L67S.XHC
Mapcode Global: WH6F4.FRSP
Plus Code: 9CCR7PW6+35
Entry Name: Lighthouse, Lybster Harbour
Listing Name: Lybster Harbour at Invershore
Listing Date: 28 November 1984
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339973
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7954
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Lybster Lighthouse
Lybster Bay Lighthouse
Lybster Harbour, Lighthouse
ID on this website: 200339973
Location: Latheron
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Parish: Latheron
Traditional County: Caithness
Tagged with: Lighthouse
Harbour; 1849; rebuilt, 1882; harbour complex of 4 basins;
flagstone rubble masonry with some modern rendering. Small
octagonal lighthouse with domed lantern; 2 storehouses
abutting one another, both rubble with rubble dressings.
Western store of 3 storeys, 6 symmetrical bays; abutting
west gable second storey of 2 storeys, 6 bays, both with
corrugated asbestos roofs.
Apparently the western part of the store ranges served partially as a salmon fisherman's bothy until after World War 2, and the eastern part as a herring fishing station, reportedly with separate ladies water closet at the end of the building.
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