Laundry, Armadale Castle, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Laundry.

Laundry, Armadale Castle, Skye

WRENN ID
little-pinnacle-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
Laundry
OS grid reference
NG 638 047
Coordinates
57.07286, -5.89847
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Laundry at Armadale Castle, located on Skye, was built between 1821 and 1822 under the supervision of John Sinclair. This two-storey building features a symmetrical three-bay front elevation made of rubble with tooled dressings and Gothic details. The south-facing front has a blind center door, while the west gable includes a pointed-headed door with a Gothic hoodmould and a window above it. The east gable also has a similar blind door. The rear of the building has asymmetrical window arrangements. Some Gothic-style glazing remains, and there is a small cast-iron grate with Gothic detailing on the first floor.

Local climate

Laundry, Armadale Castle, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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