Salix House, Banavie Locks, Caledonian Canal is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Salix House, Banavie Locks, Caledonian Canal
- WRENN ID
- long-paling-tide
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NN 114 771
- Coordinates
- 56.84767, -5.09261
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Salix House, near Banavie, is a building dating from circa 1815, likely designed by Thomas Telford, with later additions. Originally intended as a lock keepers’ house for the Caledonian Canal, it was planned as two flatted dwellings, with living space on both the ground and first floors.
The house is symmetrical in design, facing southeast. It is a two-storey structure with three bays, constructed with harled walls and painted tooled ashlar margins. A central, three-windowed bay projects forward and is bowed, rising the full height of the building. The windows of this bowed bay are linked by cill bands, and it is topped with a shallow, piended roof. A formerly projecting rear bay is now largely obscured by later porches, which mask the original entrance. A single-storey wing, featuring a tall end stack on the north gable, extends from the main body of the house.
The windows are fitted with 12 panes. Notable features include a deep base course, a wide central ridge stack with a battery of flues, and a shallow piended slate roof with deep, soffitted eaves. The statutory address is Caledonian Canal, Banavie, Neptune's Staircase, Studio Salix.
Local climate
Salix House, Banavie Locks, Caledonian Canal sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,040 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 48 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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