Inverewe, Poolewe is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Inverewe, Poolewe
- WRENN ID
- winding-mantel-sunrise
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NG 862 813
- Coordinates
- 57.77077, -5.596
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The house at Inverewe, near Poolewe, dates from around 1730 to 1740. It is a two-storey, five-bay building, originally harled. A wide, later projecting porch dominates the west front, obscuring the original central entrance, and is flanked by larger single windows that were added later. Smaller windows on the first floor are paired in the outer bays. The windows have 12-pane glazing. The rear elevation has irregular and altered window placement. A buttress is located at the northeast corner. The end stacks have been renewed, and the roof is covered in West Highland slate. A dry stone garden wall encloses the property.
A low, single-storey harled steading, now converted into dwellings and occupied by National Trust for Scotland personnel, stands nearby. It has irregular window placement and a slate roof. The ground floor house windows may be later alterations, originally narrower paired windows like those on the first floor, and the house is named Inverewe on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1874. The property is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.
Local climate
Inverewe, 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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