Inshes House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 1 related planning application.
Inshes House
- WRENN ID
- riven-wall-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Address
- Inshes House, IV2 5BG
- OS grid reference
- NH 694 437
- Coordinates
- 57.46487, -4.17726
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Inshes House dates to 1767, although it incorporates parts of an earlier house. It is a tall, symmetrical three-bay, three-storey building with a basement, facing northwest. A range of single-storey buildings from the 19th century extends to the rear. The walls are harled, with ashlar dressings. The central entrance features a rusticated ashlar doorpiece with decorative buckle detailing, a lintel of similar material with a dated keystone beneath a semi-circular arch, and flanking key-blocked oculi. The double-leaf panelled doors are topped by a radial fanlight, and a reused step has a moulded riser. The northeast gable has two windows on each storey, while the southwest gable has one window on each storey. A reused armorial panel is set below the centre wallhead stack, which has an inscribed and dated plaque. The windows are fitted with 2-pane glazing, and the roof is covered with slate, with corniced, shaped end stacks.
Later 19th-century bipartites (windows divided into two sections by a mullion) are found in the centre of the rear elevation, on the first and second floors. Various other gabled and piended single-storey buildings were added to the rear in the 19th century.
Inside, little of the original fabric remains, except for a cantilevered staircase that rises through the centre of the house, with some surviving turned wooden balustrade. A roundheaded hearth is located in the basement, and some earlier fabric is visible.
The armorial on the southwest gable displays the initials “I R” and “I S,” and a plaque beneath reads "A R REBWILT 1767”. A small tower house (listed separately) stands to the southwest of the main house, along with a small privy to the south. The house was undergoing restoration in 1985.
Local climate
Inshes House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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