Knock House, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 3 related planning applications.
Knock House, Skye
- WRENN ID
- blind-loggia-acorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Address
- Knock House, Skye, IV44 8RE
- OS grid reference
- NG 670 090
- Coordinates
- 57.11276, -5.84947
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Steadings at Knock House is a farmhouse from the later 18th century, with repairs carried out by James Gillespie Graham in 1802. The building is finished in white harling and consists of two storeys with three bays, featuring a central door and a later piended porch. There are single-storey buildings at right angles to the main structure, creating a U-shaped courtyard. To the east, there is a three-bay cottage with modern dormers. The ground floor windows are larger than those on the first floor, with 12-pane glazing, and there are end stacks. The roof is slate.
The steading includes a large mid-19th century rubble courtyard steading, with the north range built into the side of the hill. The north and east ranges are two storeys high, while there is a single-storey cart shelter to the west, also with a slate roof.
Local climate
Knock House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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