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Latitude: 55.3258 / 55°19'32"N
Longitude: -4.8446 / 4°50'40"W
OS Eastings: 219629
OS Northings: 607210
OS Grid: NS196072
Mapcode National: GBR 41.6DRZ
Mapcode Global: WH2QC.KD7J
Plus Code: 9C7Q85G4+85
Entry Name: Turnberry Lighthouse And Keeper's Houses
Listing Name: Turnberry Lighthouse and Keepers' Houses
Listing Date: 27 April 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 345962
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12991
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Turnberry Point Light
ID on this website: 200345962
Location: Kirkoswald
County: South Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Girvan and South Carrick
Parish: Kirkoswald
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Lighthouse Lighthouse keeper's house
1873 for Northern Lighthouse Commissioners, D & T Stevenson, Engineers.
LIGHTHOUSE: Tapering circular-section tower, brick built painted, with string course below top upper courses curbing out to support concrete cap on which iron lantern sits. Lantern glazing triangular-paned, domed top plain iron railing round cap. Small rectangular windows spiral round tower following staircase. Door in SE face, adjacent to link block (see below), doorcase, has painted quoins.
KEEPER'S HOUSE: Main block 2-storey 2-bay 6-bay flat-roofed, brick built, with cornice and blocking course. Short chimney stacks in pairs on E and W ends. Principal elevation to S, 6-bay. To E single-storey 1-by 2-bay flat-roofed wing with tall chimney stacks on S and E elevations. To W lean-to-wing with corrugated iron roof, pair doors in W elevation. Base course.
Houses linked to tower by 2-storey flat-roofed block with house door in E face, treated as lighthouse door.
Later flat-roofed single-storey building to NE. Tower and houses enclosed within iron railing on masonry dwarf wall.
To east is walled enclosure with pair of coal cellars in masonry and brick.
Set in ruins of Turnberry Castle.
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