Public School, Eigg is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Schoolhouse, school. 1 related planning application.
Public School, Eigg
- WRENN ID
- brooding-chapel-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Schoolhouse, school
- Address
- Public School, Eigg, PH42 4RL
- OS grid reference
- NM 480 863
- Coordinates
- 56.89955, -6.13976
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The public school on Eigg was built in 1829 and consists of a simple rectangular two-storey and attic structure that faces south. It has a symmetrical three-bay design, with a later 19th-century school added to the west gable. Both buildings are constructed from rubble, featuring tooled ashlar margins on the school.
The main entrance to the house is a central door that is obscured by a later timber and corrugated iron porch, which includes a side entrance flanked by small windows. The roof has three dormers, which are small piended dormers that break the wallhead, with the center dormer being particularly small and rising directly from the wallhead. There is also a small rear window and the glazing consists of four panes. The building has end stacks and a slate roof.
The school, built in 1877, features two large multi-pane glazed windows that light the south gable and the long west elevation of the simple rectangular schoolroom. It has a slate roof with projecting eaves.
Local climate
Public School, Eigg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,220 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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