Kensaleyre House, Kensaleyre, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Manse. 3 related planning applications.
Kensaleyre House, Kensaleyre, Skye
- WRENN ID
- brooding-lancet-winter
- 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
- Manse
- Address
- Kensaleyre House, Kensaleyre, Skye, IV51 9XE
- OS grid reference
- NG 415 527
- Coordinates
- 57.49066, -6.31533
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kensaleyre House, located in Kensaleyre on Skye, was designed by James Gillespie Graham between 1802 and 1803. This former manse is a two-storey building with an attic and features a three-bay, L-shaped layout. The central bay is slightly advanced and gabled, with a projecting porch and a small pointed-headed window at the apex. There is a single window on the ground floor and a small attic window, as well as a window on the south gable. The windows have 2-pane glazing, and the house has end stacks and a slate roof. At the rear, there is a wing constructed of caulked rubble, also with a slate roof.
Local climate
Kensaleyre House, Kensaleyre, 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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