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Latitude: 57.5259 / 57°31'33"N
Longitude: -7.6945 / 7°41'40"W
OS Eastings: 59290
OS Northings: 862720
OS Grid: NF592627
Mapcode National: GBR 78DT.VVF
Mapcode Global: WGV2D.S34F
Plus Code: 9C9JG8G4+95
Entry Name: Keepers Cottage, Monach Lighthouse, Shillay, Monach Islands
Listing Name: Monach Lighthouse and Keeper's House Including Boundary Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 October 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351542
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17578
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Monach Islands, Shillay, Monach Lighthouse, Keepers Cottage
ID on this website: 200351542
Location: North Uist
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Beinn na Foghla agus Uibhist a Tuath
Parish: North Uist
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: Cottage
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.
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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.
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