Ratagan Youth Hostel is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Ratagan Youth Hostel
- WRENN ID
- little-vestry-burdock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 919 198
- Coordinates
- 57.22237, -5.44716
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ratagan Youth Hostel is an earlier 19th-century building, originally a salmon fishing building, now comprising two storeys and seven bays. The exterior is harled and painted, with painted margins defining the window surrounds. Wide entrances are visible on both the north and south elevations, although these are now obscured by modern glazing; the north elevation features two doorways. Windows are provided by 2-pane sashes, and the roof is slate-covered with end chimney stacks. Attached at right angles is a five-bay cartshed constructed of rubble with a slate roof. The cartshed is currently owned by the Forestry Commission. The building was restored in 1978.
Local climate
Ratagan Youth Hostel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,160 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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