Loch Ospisdale East, Skibo Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Residential, industrial.
Loch Ospisdale East, Skibo Castle
- WRENN ID
- hollow-banister-gilt
- 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
- Residential, industrial
- OS grid reference
- NH 734 889
- Coordinates
- 57.87197, -4.13517
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Loch Ospisdale East at Skibo Castle is a pair of two-storey, two-bay dwellings, likely designed by Ross and Macbeth in the early 20th century. The buildings feature coursed, tooled rubble with polished ashlar dressings. The outer bays have tripartite windows on both the ground and first floors, with the first-floor windows rising through the wallhead, set within wide crowstepped gables that are topped with finials. The central first-floor windows also extend through the wallhead and are adorned with gablets featuring wild beasts. The crowstepped gables are complemented by end and ridge batteries of octagonal chimney stacks, and the roofs are covered with slate.
At the rear, there are single-storey, wide two-bay industrial buildings that were formerly used as an electric house. These structures have a slated roof with raised and louvred vents at the ridge, and the interior is finished with white tiles.
Local climate
Loch Ospisdale East, 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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