Portree House, Home Farm Road, Portree, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 8 related planning applications.
Portree House, Home Farm Road, Portree, Skye
- WRENN ID
- moated-railing-quill
- 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
- Type
- House
- Address
- Portree House, Home Farm Road, Portree, Skye, IV51 9LX
- OS grid reference
- NG 479 440
- Coordinates
- 57.4164, -6.19897
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Portree House, located on Home Farm Road in Portree, Skye, was designed by James Gillespie (Graham) between 1806 and 1810. The building is constructed from coursed rubble with tooled dressings and features two storeys and an attic. It has three bays with a central door and a later square projecting porch. At the rear, there is a low single storey and attic range that forms a courtyard, which is connected to the main house by a two-storey quadrant.
The front elevation showcases wide angle pilasters, a moulded cornice, and a blocking course that is raised at the centre. It includes 12-pane glazing, two later canted dormers, and corniced end stacks, one of which dates from the later 19th century. The roof is finished with slate.
Inside, there is a fanlight above the inner entrance door and a simple circular stairwell featuring a cast-iron baluster with palmette detailing.
Local climate
Portree House, Home Farm Road, Portree, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 8 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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