Dairy House, Skibo Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Dairy, dairy house. 1 related planning application.
Dairy House, Skibo Castle
- WRENN ID
- stark-railing-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Type
- Dairy, dairy house
- OS grid reference
- NH 737 893
- Coordinates
- 57.87544, -4.13076
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dairy House at Skibo Castle is a single-storey octagonal dairy built around 1900. It features a central door in a wide west bay, flanked by narrow windows, and has a wing at the rear that connects to the Dairy House. The exterior is constructed of tooled, sneck coursed rubble, and the narrow windows are fitted with leaded Art Nouveau glazing. The dairy has a red tiled bellcast roof with deep projecting eaves supported by rustic wood columns, creating a veranda with red quarry tiled paving. The roof is adorned with an ornamental tiled ridge and three octagonal louvred and ogee-headed ventilators.
Inside, the dairy contains two rooms with decorative tiled walls, tiled floors, and marble benches, as well as an ornamental fountain in the western room.
The Dairy House, also built around 1900, has an asymmetrical cruciform plan and is a single-storey building with an attic, comprising three bays. It features crowstepped gables and rectangular bay windows on the ground floor, facing east and south. The entrance is located in a re-entrant angle, and there are two piended dormers with deep eaves and tile finials. The upper sashes have multi-pane glazing, and the central ridge includes a battery of four octagonal stacks. The roof is red tiled and has a decorative tiled ridge.
Local climate
Dairy House, Skibo Castle receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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