.jpg) Noss Head in 2011 | |
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| Location | Wick Highland |
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| OS grid | ND3881255012 |
| Coordinates | 58°28′44″N 3°03′03″W / 58.479°N 3.0509°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1849 |
| Designed by | Alan Stevenson  |
| Construction | masonry tower |
| Automated | 1987 |
| Height | 18 metres (59 ft) |
| Shape | cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern attached to 1-storey keeper's house |
| Markings | white tower, black lantern, ochre trim |
| Operator | Northern Lighthouse Board |
| Heritage | category A listed building |
| Light | |
| First lit | 18 June 1849 |
| Focal height | 53 metres (174 ft) |
| Lens | second order Fresnel lens |
| Range | 18 nautical miles (33 km; 21 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl W 20s |
The Noss Head Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse near Wick in Caithness in the Highland council area of Scotland. It is located at the end of Noss Head, a peninsula on the north-west coast of Caithness that overlooks Sinclairs Bay, three miles north-east of Wick. It is notable as being the first lighthouse that was built with a diagonally-paned lantern room.
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