Straw Barn, Skelbo Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. Steading.
Straw Barn, Skelbo Farm
- WRENN ID
- wild-attic-woodpecker
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- Steading
- OS grid reference
- NH 790 950
- Coordinates
- 57.92788, -4.04444
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Straw Barn at Skelbo Farm is a large single-storey and loft structure built in the mid to late 19th century, designed in a U-shape that encloses a 5-bay gabled range of cattle courts. The barn features a symmetrical 7-bay crow-stepped gabled frontage facing east. It is constructed from rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The outer and central ranges are slightly taller, with the outer gables featuring a ground floor doorway, flanking windows, and a central loft window, all topped with apex stacks. The centre 5 bays have wide round-headed arched entrances with double leaf doors, each bay also includes a central loft vent. The central gable is adorned with an apex bellcote, and the building is topped with slate roofs.
Local climate
Straw Barn, Skelbo Farm receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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