Manse, Stenscholl Parish Church, Staffin, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.

Manse, Stenscholl Parish Church, Staffin, Skye

WRENN ID
plain-chimney-owl
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
OS grid reference
NG 488 672
Coordinates
57.62539, -6.20785
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a manse, built in 1828 by Thomas Telford. It is a two-storey, three-bay house constructed of coursed rubble with tooled dressings. The manse features single-storey, piended porches with shaped parapets on its east and west gables, and a window at both ground and first floor levels on the east gable, added in 1952. Some windows contain lying pane glazing. An outshot extends from the rear, and there are end stacks with a slate roof. The manse is similar in design to Hallin Manse. References can be found in FASTI ECCLESIAE SCOTICANAE, volumes vii, page 181, and ix, page 689, and in Howard Colvin’s A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS, page 821.

Local climate

Manse, Stenscholl Parish Church, Staffin, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,850 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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