Swimming Pool, Skibo Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Swimming pool. 1 related planning application.
Swimming Pool, Skibo Castle
- WRENN ID
- grim-sentry-honey
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Type
- Swimming pool
- OS grid reference
- NH 734 889
- Coordinates
- 57.87168, -4.1349
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The swimming pool at Skibo Castle dates from around 1900 and features an ashlar construction. The gabled frontage contains changing rooms with a projecting crowstepped porch and a crenellated entrance. The decorative crowstepped gable ends are highlighted by large lunette windows that are subdivided with smaller windows. The swimming pool itself has seven buttressed bays, each filled with round-headed tripartite windows, and a canted five-sided south end.
Additional architectural details include a continuous string course and a moulded eaves cornice. The pool is covered by a glazed roof, while the changing rooms have a slated roof with a polygonal ridge ventilator. Inside, the area surrounding the pool is finished with tiles and a chequered paved design.
Local climate
Swimming Pool, Skibo Castle receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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