Free Church, Stromeferry is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 October 2001. Church.

Free Church, Stromeferry

WRENN ID
tired-quoin-smoke
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 October 2001
Type
Church
OS grid reference
NG 862 346
Coordinates
57.35237, -5.55515
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church in Stromeferry is a small, well-detailed church built in the late 19th century with a rectangular plan and a spirelet bellcote. The exterior features squared and snecked rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, a battered base course, and an ashlar cill course. The church has a three-bay nave divided by pilaster strips, with a pointed-arch roll-moulded and voussoired doorway, and pointed-arch cusped and geometric traceried windows with raked cills.

On the south elevation facing the road, there is a bay to the right of the center featuring a deep-set two-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges and a multi-pane leaded fanlight. The bays to the center and left each contain a trefoil-headed tripartite timber window set into rectangular panels. The east elevation has a gabled design with a large three-light traceried window in the center. A square-section bellcote is set back at the roof ridge, with a slate-hung base leading to a reduced leaded stage and cornice, topped by an elongated pyramidal roof that sweeps at the eaves.

The north elevation mirrors the south with three tripartite windows and a tall stack on the outer right. The west elevation has two lancet windows. The glazing throughout features multi-pane (square pattern) leaded glass with margin glazing, and the roof is covered with graded grey slates. The eaves overhang with plain bargeboarding.

Inside, there is a timber-lined vestibule with a two-leaf timber door that leads to a boarded-timber church featuring exposed roof trusses. A timber-balustered pulpit is located to the west, flanked by wall-mounted oil lamps, and there is a timber fire-surround in the northwest corner.

Local climate

Free Church, Stromeferry sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,080 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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