Engine And Gunpowder House, Fort Augustus is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 December 1976. Engine house.

Engine And Gunpowder House, Fort Augustus

WRENN ID
peeling-soffit-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 December 1976
Type
Engine house
OS grid reference
NH 379 091
Coordinates
57.14443, -4.68055
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Engine and Gunpowder House in Fort Augustus is an earlier 18th century, simple square building made of rubble and standing two stories tall. It features tooled rubble dressings and some harl pointing, with slightly battered walls. The north elevation has a wide round-headed entrance at the center, which is fitted with a later double leaf plank door. On the west elevation, there are shuttered windows on both the ground and first floors. The building is topped with a pyramidal slate roof that has slender finials and a weather vane.

Local climate

Engine And Gunpowder House, Fort Augustus sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,500 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 58 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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