Wool Store And Fishing Station, Meanish Pier, Glendale, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 April 1989. Wool store, fishing station.
Wool Store And Fishing Station, Meanish Pier, Glendale, Skye
- WRENN ID
- riven-ashlar-tide
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1989
- Type
- Wool store, fishing station
- OS grid reference
- NG 153 505
- Coordinates
- 57.45589, -6.74741
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Wool Store and Fishing Station at Meanish Pier in Glendale, Skye, is likely from the early 19th century. This single-storey building with a loft is constructed from rubble with squared dressings.
On the east elevation, there is a door located off-centre to the right, accompanied by a window to its right. The west elevation features a narrow window positioned off-centre to the right on the lower floor. The south gable has a straight flight of steps leading up to the loft door, while the north gable includes one window in the gable head at the upper floor. The building has end stacks, with the southern stack being a dummy, and it is topped with a slate roof.
Local climate
Wool Store And Fishing Station, Meanish Pier, Glendale, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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