Fort Augustus, The Abbey, The Clansman Centre is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 2014. Former school, shop, exhibition centre.

Fort Augustus, The Abbey, The Clansman Centre

WRENN ID
wild-string-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 June 2014
Type
Former school, shop, exhibition centre
OS grid reference
NH 379 091
Coordinates
57.14477, -4.68008
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fort Augustus, The Abbey, The Clansman Centre is a single-storey, gabled, T-plan building designed by John Rhind in 1878. Originally a school, it features an entrance porch and deep overhanging timber eaves, and it has been repurposed as a shop and exhibition centre since 2013. The structure is built from rock-faced sandstone with contrasting ashlar detailing, a deep base course, and some pointed-arched window openings. The roof is distinctive, covered in grey slates with red ridge tiles, and includes a central chimney stack. The windows are mainly timber sash and case.

The interior, as observed in 2013, consists of two rooms. The larger room on the right retains some original timber mouldings in the roof.

Local climate

Fort Augustus, The Abbey, The Clansman Centre sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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