Glencripesdale House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 2001. House.
Glencripesdale House
- WRENN ID
- silver-tower-russet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 2001
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NM 662 592
- Coordinates
- 56.66604, -5.81671
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glencripesdale House is a substantial former tacksman's house dating from around 1800. It is a two-storey building with an attic, featuring a three-bay, rectangular plan and a symmetrical design. The exterior is harled and constructed from squared sandstone rubble. At the center of the front elevation is an advanced gabled porch, and there are four small gabled roof dormers above, providing regular fenestration.
On the rear elevation, there is a single window at the center, accompanied by a small lean-to timber-framed conservatory to the right. The side elevation features a single-storey, two-bay gabled wing at the center, with regular fenestration and roof dormers on the front. The rear of this wing has a swept roof outshot. Additionally, there is a single-storey with an attic, three-bay, rectangular-plan gabled addition that abuts the center of the southeast gable end, which includes a central door flanked by windows and a slated swept dormer.
The principal elevation is adorned with four-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes large Velux rooflights at the rear. There is a string course at the gable stacks, which have tall clay cans.
Inside, the layout consists of a central cross passage with stairs leading to the rear and single flanking rooms. The interior was renovated in the late 1970s.
Local climate
Glencripesdale House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,050 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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