Letterewe House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. 4 related planning applications.
Letterewe House
- WRENN ID
- tall-truss-soot
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Address
- Letterewe House, IV22 2HH
- OS grid reference
- NG 951 713
- Coordinates
- 57.68526, -5.43816
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Letterewe House is a rambling, two-storey house constructed between the late 18th and late 19th centuries. The exterior is predominantly harled, with margins of tooled ashlar. The building follows a roughly L-shaped plan, with re-entrant walls forming a small, enclosed court and topped with crenellations. The main entrance is now located on the north side, at the base of a projecting, two-storey and attic drum tower. The tower features three small, decorative, piended dormers, a conical fishscale slate roof, a bellcote, and a weathervane. Some windows extend through the wallhead into gabled dormers, and the windows have varied glazing patterns. Other details include crowsteps, angle bartizans, margined ridge and end stacks, and slate roofs. The house was described as "a good seat" as early as 1813. References to the property are found in Nicholas Carlisle’s Topographical Dictionary of Scotland.
Local climate
Letterewe House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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