Walled Garden, Fassfern House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
Walled Garden, Fassfern House
- WRENN ID
- quiet-finial-starling
- 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
- NN 020 787
- Coordinates
- 56.85807, -5.24799
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The walled garden is a feature of Fassfern House, with an early to mid-18th century core and significant 19th century additions and alterations. A two-storey, south-facing range forms the principal structure, divided into three blocks of three bays, with a projecting rear wing. The central block is the oldest part of this range, exhibiting a symmetrical front with narrow windows. The central doorway has been blocked and replaced with a window. Small rear windows, two on each floor, are also present.
A slightly higher two-storey range extends to the west (left) and incorporates a rear wing, while a single-storey and attic portion stretches to the east (right). The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, and the roof is slate-covered, with renewed stacks.
Behind the house are two long, single-storey steading ranges that are set at right angles to one another and are also harled. A rubble-walled garden occupies the rear area.
Historical records indicate that Prince Charles Edward Stuart spent one night at Fassifern (previously known as Fassifern) during the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Fassfern House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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