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Latitude: 56.0331 / 56°1'59"N
Longitude: -3.1356 / 3°8'7"W
OS Eastings: 329336
OS Northings: 682831
OS Grid: NT293828
Mapcode National: GBR 2B.RX38
Mapcode Global: WH6S7.TM28
Plus Code: 9C8R2VM7+7Q
Entry Name: Artillery Fortifications, Inchkeith
Listing Name: Inchkeith Lighthouse, Lighthouse Keepers Cottage, Ancillary Buildings and Boundary Walls excluding scheduled monument SM3838, Inchkeith Island
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Last Amended: 4 June 2018
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342003
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9707
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Inchkeith, Artillery Fortifications
ID on this website: 200342003
Location: Kinghorn
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy
Parish: Kinghorn
Traditional County: Fife
Tagged with: Architectural structure Artillery battery
The lighthouse has a series of single storey ancillary buildings, one of which was used as the lighthouse keepers' cottage. The lighthouse and ancillary buildings are surrounded by rubble boundary walls which include a 50 yard stretch of wall (with loop-hole) from 16th century fort (see separate designation record: SM3838).
In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: scheduled monument SM3838 (see separate designation record).
The building of the lighthouse involved removal of almost all of a fort built by the French after they captured the island from the English in 1549, and partially demolished in 1567. The lighthouse originally had 1 stationary light. In 1815 a heptagon (seven lenses revolving around a fixed burner) was installed, this revolving light was purchased by the Government of Newfoundland and installed on Cape Spear in 1835 after installation in 1834 of a dioptic lantern. In 1889 an octagon (8 lenses) and new machinery were installed. The light is now entirely automated.
In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: scheduled monument SM3838 (see separate designation record).
Statutory Address revised in 2018. Previously listed as 'INCHKEITH ISLAND, LIGHTHOUSE AND REMAINS OF INCHKEITH FORT AND BOUNDARY WALLS'.
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