Former Drumfern Officers Quarters, Glenelg Village is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
Former Drumfern Officers Quarters, Glenelg Village
- WRENN ID
- open-entrance-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- OS grid reference
- NG 813 193
- Coordinates
- 57.21298, -5.62178
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Drumfern Officers Quarters consist of a mid-18th century building in Glenelg Village, comprising two mirrored rows of six bays each, providing a total of eight dwellings. The buildings are all harled except for Number 4, which is faced with painted rubble. Each row contains two storeys, and originally featured six symmetrical small windows on the first floor. The southern end of the terrace has four houses, each with a three-bay front and a central door, which are now partially obscured by later, projecting gabled porches. Most windows retain their original four panes, though some twelve-pane windows remain. The roofs are covered with slate and feature regular ridge stacks. The building is believed to have served as officers' quarters associated with Bernera Barracks. It occupies a prominent location in the main street of Glenelg Village, alongside other buildings including a post office and residential properties, all historically associated with the former officers' quarters.
Local climate
Former Drumfern Officers Quarters, Glenelg Village sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,200 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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