Keil House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Keil House
- WRENN ID
- standing-lantern-grove
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Keil House, PA80 5XT
- OS grid reference
- NM 670 453
- Coordinates
- 56.54181, -5.79149
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Keil House is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house that faces south. It features mid-19th-century single-storey steadings on either side, creating a U-shaped courtyard. The house is harled, while the steadings are constructed from random rubble with tooled rubble dressings.
The house has a central door and small windows on the first floor, along with a stair window at the rear. It has four-pane glazing, renewed end stacks, and a slate roof. The steadings are attached to the east and west gables of the house. The barn on the east side has a door leading to the courtyard and a winnowing window on the opposite east elevation, with slit vents on both elevations and an open bay at the south end facing the courtyard.
There is a central door in the south gable of the west steading, along with three additional windows in the west elevation and a rear brick stack. Both the house and steadings have piended slate roofs. A roughly coped drystone wall encloses the courtyard to the south.
Local climate
Keil House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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