Talisker House, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Talisker House, Skye
- WRENN ID
- long-zinc-coral
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Talisker House, Skye, IV47 8SF
- OS grid reference
- NG 324 302
- Coordinates
- 57.28388, -6.44158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Talisker House is a building with an early 18th century core and later additions. It features harled walls with ashlar dressings and stands two storeys high with an attic, comprising six wide bays. The front (west) elevation includes a two-bay piended projecting wing, which has a porch in the left re-entrant and a single-storey addition with five long multi-pane windows in the right re-entrant, along with a bow window at the center of the wing. Both the wing and the bow window have crenellated parapets. The roof has five piended dormers with decoratively carved wood jambs, two stair windows at the rear, and features 12-pane and lying pane glazing, along with end and ridge stacks, all beneath a slate roof.
Inside, the projecting front wing, which dates from around 1780, contains a dining room on the ground floor and a drawing room above. The drawing room is notable for its original ornate plaster ceiling, while the dining room's plaster ceiling dates from 1865, coinciding with the addition of the bow window.
Local climate
Talisker House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,910 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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