Cliff House, Poolewe is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 3 related planning applications.
Cliff House, Poolewe
- WRENN ID
- outer-quartz-equinox
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Cliff House, Poolewe, IV22 2JU
- OS grid reference
- NG 854 810
- Coordinates
- 57.76722, -5.60892
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cliff House is a late 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house located in Poolewe. The house is harled and features a central door on its east, or main, elevation. It has two later gabled dormers and a small attic window in the north gable. The rear of the house has a four-pane glazing wing, and there are end stacks. The roof is slate covered. The house stands close to a bypassed section of the B8057 road and a dry stone clapper bridge.
Local climate
Cliff House, Poolewe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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