Old Shandwick House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Old Shandwick House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cloister-dew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 787 753
- Coordinates
- 57.75122, -4.03939
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Shandwick House is a large two-storey, three-bay house built between 1790 and 1805. Constructed of harled rubble with ashlar dressings, it was built for George Cockburn Ross of Berwickshire, who inherited Shandwick in 1790. The main façade features a large, projecting bowed bay with a corniced door in the centre, flanked by windows. The first floor of the bowed bay has three windows. The first floor of the outer bays contain keystoned Venetian windows, linked by a continuous cill band, with a deeper band course immediately below, and a further band at the wallhead. The wallhead is finished with margined crenellations. Other notable features include a projecting bowed rear stairwell, paired ridge stacks, a piended slate roof, and a large sliding door inserted into the west gable. The interior of the house was gutted at some point. References relating to early observations of the house appear in A General View of the Agriculture of the Counties of Ross and Cromarty by Sir George Stewart Mackenzie (1810) and A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis (1846).
Local climate
Old Shandwick House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% 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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