No. 40, Beaton's Cottage, Bornesketaig, Skye is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
No. 40, Beaton's Cottage, Bornesketaig, Skye
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-banister-spring
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 378 707
- Coordinates
- 57.64997, -6.39634
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
No. 40, Beaton’s Cottage is a 19th-century traditional house located in Bornesketaig, Skye. It is a single-storey, three-bay dwelling with a central doorway. The construction is white-washed rubble with rounded corners, featuring small four-pane windows and a single similar window to the rear. There are gable end stacks and a piended thatched roof. A single-storey byre, built in a matching style and lit by two skylights, is also present. The cottage is in excellent condition and remains lived in. The statutory address is 40 Bornesketaig.
Local climate
No. 40, Beaton's Cottage, Bornesketaig, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,600 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 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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