Drill Hall, 1 Custom House Street, Ullapool is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 February 2004. Drill hall, house.
Drill Hall, 1 Custom House Street, Ullapool
- WRENN ID
- buried-baluster-woodpecker
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 February 2004
- Type
- Drill hall, house
- OS grid reference
- NH 128 942
- Coordinates
- 57.89867, -5.15913
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Drill Hall and adjoining two-storey villa-like house, built around 1887 for the Seaforth Highlanders, is located on the site of the Custom House in Ullapool. The south-facing elevations on Custom House Street are constructed from stone, with a snecked finish at the front and rubble or rendered surfaces elsewhere, featuring ashlar detailing. The hall has arched openings and plate glass timber sash and case windows, while the house has modern uPVC replacements. The hall's three-bay south front includes a central double door flanked by windows and a central timber louvred opening above the door, topped by a segmental-arched corrugated iron roof.
On the long elevation facing Ladysmith Street, there is a door with two windows and a north lean-to. Inside, some walls are finished with timber tongue and groove, and the arched roof is supported by thin metal tie beams. The attached three-bay house mirrors the hall's arrangement, featuring a central door (uPVC with a timber effect finish) and flanking windows. The left bay has a curvilinear gable, while the right bay features a timber-corbelled oriel that breaks the eaves, both adorned with finials. The building has a pitched and piended slate roof with stone skews and prominent stacks, along with a rear single-storey lean-to extension.
Local climate
Drill Hall, 1 Custom House Street, Ullapool sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,720 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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