High Square, Home Farm, Armadale, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Farmstead.

High Square, Home Farm, Armadale, Skye

WRENN ID
under-rood-equinox
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Farmstead
OS grid reference
NG 640 050
Coordinates
57.07588, -5.89502
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

High Square, Home Farm in Armadale, Skye, is an early 19th-century building that was restored after a fire by John Mackenzie of Portree in 1891. The structure features coursed rubble with contrasting pale sandstone dressings, particularly noticeable on the dovecot. The farm square is arranged in a large U-shape and opens to the south. At the southwest corner, there is a three-stage dovecot tower that includes a workshop on the ground floor and a heated room on the first floor. The dovecot has flightholes set within small arched recesses, bracketted alighting ledges, deep eaves, and a pyramidal slate roof.

The rear range is two stories high and has three cart arches, along with granary vents on the first floor and a ramp leading to the granary. There is a wheel gable on the east side, although it does not have a wheel. To the east of the main building, there is a saw mill that is still in working order. The west range is a single-storey, eight-bay dwelling that is harled and features a modern box dormer and a centrally projecting porch.

Local climate

High Square, Home Farm, Armadale, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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