Udrigle is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Udrigle
- WRENN ID
- moated-rotunda-crimson
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 895 936
- Coordinates
- 57.88222, -5.55095
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1745 and 1756, Udrigle is a two-storey, three-bay house. It is constructed of harled rubble on heavy boulder footings. The north elevation features a central doorway, which is set within a plain, chamfered doorway masked by a low, gabled porch with crowsteps, dated 1756. The south elevation is symmetrical, with ground floor and first-floor windows in the outer bays, and a central window positioned between the ground and first floors to light the staircase half landing; a small window above also illuminates the stairwell. Single, small attic windows are present in each gable. Other exterior details include plain chamfered window margins, crowsteps, cavetto skewputts, corniced end stacks, and a slate roof.
The interior contains original panelled rooms on the first floor, with slightly different shaped panel motifs in the east and west rooms. The panelling includes former box bed doors in the east-facing parlour. Moulded, lugged architraves surround the doors, and there are six-panel doors. Moulded, lugged chimney-pieces are present, with a parlour chimney-piece dated 1745. The original shaped, flat wooden balusters of the scale and plat wooden staircase, located in the centre of the south front, rise to the attic. A marriage stone is set into the parlour chimney-piece, inscribed "17 WMK I MK, 45" with a heart in the centre. The porch lintel bears the inscription “17 WMK L MK 56”, although the figures "17" are damaged by harling. The panelling, doors, and doorpieces bear a similarity to those found at Flowerdale House (1738), Gairloch, and Mackenzie House. The property is currently unlived in.
Local climate
Udrigle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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