The lighthouse shore station comprised a dock, signal tower, workshops and lodgings for those involved in the building of Skerryvore Lighthouse. Skerryvore Lighthouse was designed by Alan Stevenson and sits eleven miles off the coast of Tiree.
Building work started in 1837. Stone came from the Ross of Mull. They were hard carved by a workforce of eighty masons and then shipped out by boat to be assembled on An Sgeir Mhòr ‘the big skerry’. The light first shone in 1844. The four lighthouse keepers lived in a row of cottages above the Signal Tower.
