Farm House, Guisachan Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Farm House, Guisachan Farm
- WRENN ID
- dark-ledge-brook
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NH 306 270
- Coordinates
- 57.30225, -4.81337
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely designed around 1875 by architects A & W Reid. It is a two-story, three-bay building constructed of grey rubble with contrasting, carefully finished red ashlar dressings. The symmetrical southwestern front features a central, rounded entrance flanked by canted bay windows. First-floor windows extend through the wallhead, topped by simple gables with cast iron finials. Similar first-floor windows are present in the east and west return gables, and to the rear wing, which also features a projecting porch entrance. The windows have two and four panes of glass. The house has paired, coped chimneys and a piended platform slate roof, incorporating solar heating panels to the front.
The farmhouse occupies a raised site overlooking the steading and dairy, and the valley below toward the park and ruins of Guisachan House. The farmhouse, steading, and dairy were not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1872. A & W Reid designed most of the other buildings on the estate between 1855 and 1875; plans survive for all buildings except the farmhouse and the dairy.
Local climate
Farm House, Guisachan Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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 0.2°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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