Steading, Letterewe House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Steading, Letterewe House
- WRENN ID
- young-frieze-yew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NG 952 713
- Coordinates
- 57.68496, -5.43682
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The steading range at Letterewe House is an H-shaped complex built between the late 18th and late 19th centuries. The central section and the northwest section are barns of the Gairloch/Kintail type, designed for storing hay and corn. The northwest section has been infilled with corrugated iron to create a small cottage. Evidence of cruck framing remains, and both the north and south elevations of the central section feature three wide, louvred openings, which allowed air to circulate and dry the stored crops. A small, crowstepped wing, dating to the later 19th century and originally used as a school, projects from the southwest corner; it has a gable stack and a small window. The school wing adjoins a long, ten-bay range of cart and implement sheds. All buildings have slate roofs. A drystone wall closes off the south re-entrant angle, forming a courtyard.
Local climate
Steading, Letterewe House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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