Free Church School, Skeabost, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. School.
Free Church School, Skeabost, Skye
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NG 407 489
- Coordinates
- 57.45671, -6.32445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church School in Skeabost, Skye, was built in 1847. It is constructed of white-washed rubble and has two storeys with three bays. The entrance is located in the left-hand bay. The ground floor features longer windows with 12-pane glazing, while the first floor has lying-pane glazing with 10 panes, both at the front and rear of the building. It has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
Local climate
Free Church School, Skeabost, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,760 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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