Acharn Barn is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1994. Barn.
Acharn Barn
- WRENN ID
- north-terrace-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1994
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- NM 998 549
- Coordinates
- 56.64304, -5.26524
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Acharn Barn is a probably early 19th-century single-storey and basement gabled barn, constructed from rubble and set into an earth bank, with its long axis running parallel to the bank.
On the north elevation, the basement features a near-symmetrical five-bay layout with two doors that are flanked and separated by single windows. The central window is larger and a later addition compared to the outer windows. The ground floor has a central loading door, which is flanked by pairs of long narrow slit windows.
The south elevation mirrors the ground floor layout of the north elevation.
Inside, there is a timber floor with joists built into the wall on the north side, supported by a steel cross beam that rests on sandstone corbels on the south side. The roof features collared trusses. Most of the woodwork is fairly recent, except for three wooden pillars located in the basement. The floor is cobbled with an inset aisle.
Local climate
Acharn Barn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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