Steading, Achnaha is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985.
Steading, Achnaha
- WRENN ID
- quiet-casement-alder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- OS grid reference
- NM 644 455
- Coordinates
- 56.54306, -5.83249
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Achnaha is a pair of mid-19th century cottages that front a U-plan steading, creating an enclosed courtyard. The cottages are single-storey, three-bay structures that have been combined into a single dwelling. The symmetrical south front features two doorways flanked by windows, with the entrance on the west side partially concealed by a small modern lean-to porch. The windows have 4- and 12-pane glazing, and the roof has a central ridge with shaped end stacks, covered in slate.
The steading is arranged in a U-shape and consists of three single-storey and loft ranges made of random rubble, with tooled rubble dressings. The south facade of the north range has paired basket-headed cart bays at the center, with a loft loading door above that breaks the wallhead, flanked by stable accommodation. The east and west ranges contain byres and barns, featuring slit wall vents, louvred windows, and slate roofs.
Local climate
Steading, Achnaha sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,210 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 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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