Old School And Schoolhouse, Lonmore, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. School, house.

Old School And Schoolhouse, Lonmore, Skye

WRENN ID
winter-courtyard-nettle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
School, house
OS grid reference
NG 266 464
Coordinates
57.42588, -6.55467
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old School and Schoolhouse in Lonmore, Skye, was built between 1843 and 1850. It is a two-storey, three-bay house featuring a centrally projecting porch on the south (front) elevation. The exterior is finished with sneck harling and coursed, squared rubble. A large chimney stack is located on the rear elevation, and the building has a piended slate roof. At the rear, there is a former school constructed from squared caulked rubble, which has two windows on the east elevation and three on the west elevation, also topped with a piended slate roof.

Local climate

Old School And Schoolhouse, Lonmore, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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