Arisaig Railway Station is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Railway station, signal box. 3 related planning applications.
Arisaig Railway Station
- WRENN ID
- open-copper-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Railway station, signal box
- OS grid reference
- NM 663 867
- Coordinates
- 56.91287, -5.83957
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Arisaig Railway Station, built in 1901, is a single-storey, symmetrical building with three bays that includes a ticket office and waiting room. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted window reveals. The north front, which faces the platform and railway, features a segmental-headed recess flanked by canted bay windows. The outer gable walls, which are partially glazed, extend forward to support a projecting roof that creates a continuous verandah in front of the building and platform. There is a secondary entrance in the centre of the east gable, which has multi-pane glazing. The building also has end stacks and a piended slate roof with deep eaves.
The signal box, built in the same year by the Railway Signal Company, is a two-storey structure with a square plan and is weather boarded, painted in two contrasting shades of green. It has a glazed locking room with timber astragalled windows featuring curved framing at the top. The signal box includes a timber forestair, a slate roof, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside, there is a 15 lever, Stevens and Son, pattern frame.
Local climate
Arisaig Railway Station sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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