Lodge And Gatepiers, Skeabost House, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Lodge.

Lodge And Gatepiers, Skeabost House, Skye

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
Lodge
OS grid reference
NG 418 484
Coordinates
57.45225, -6.30499
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The lodge at Skeabost House, dated 1876, is designed in the style of Alexander Ross. It is a single-storey building with a T-plan and a canted gable end, constructed from white-washed rubble. The southeast gable features a pointed-headed door flanked by a single tripartite window. The roof is covered with slate and includes ridge stacks. The gate piers are square, made of stugged ashlar with tooled margins, and topped with corniced and crenellated caps.

Local climate

Lodge And Gatepiers, Skeabost House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,760 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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