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Latitude: 60.8553 / 60°51'18"N
Longitude: -0.8852 / 0°53'6"W
OS Eastings: 460666
OS Northings: 1219679
OS Grid: HP606196
Mapcode National: GBR S051.LZ0
Mapcode Global: XHF6R.XF31
Plus Code: 9CGXV447+4W
Entry Name: North Unst Lighthouse, Muckle Flugga, Unst
Listing Name: Muckle Flugga, North Unst Lighthouse, Including Fog Horn House, Boundary Wall, Steps, and Outbuilding
Listing Date: 13 August 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351411
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17479
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: North Unst Lighthouse
North Unst
ID on this website: 200351411
Location: Unst
County: Shetland Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Parish: Unst
Traditional County: Shetland
Tagged with: Lighthouse
David and Thomas Stevenson, 1858, with late 19th century additions. Rock lighthouse complex of harled brick comprising short battered circular tower corbelled out to balcony with cast-iron handrail circumventing domed metal lantern; single storey flat-roofed square accommodation building adjoining to E, fog horn house adjacent to S enclosed by boundary wall with entrance gate to E accessed from sea by straight flight of steps incised into rock; W boundary wall extends S terminated adjacent to single storey rectangular outbuilding with flat roof and chimney.
Built of brick for ease of transport, the light was constructed after bitter argument between the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses and the Board of Trade (Trinity House). On David Stevenson's advice, the Commissioners had advised against such a wild site, but worried that war in the Crimea might spread to northern seas, Trinity House insisted that the Commissioners' "eminent engineer" would overcome any difficulties.
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