Head Forester's House, Ratagan is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
Head Forester's House, Ratagan
- WRENN ID
- stark-niche-hazel
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NG 919 198
- Coordinates
- 57.22177, -5.44794
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Head Forester's House at Ratagan is a late 18th and early 19th century building of two storeys and three bays. The front facade is harled, while the sides are of white-washed rubble. A projecting gabled porch with a central door is prominent on the front. Later 19th-century windows, arranged as bipartites, flank the porch. The original, smaller windows on the first floor have been enlarged, with one notable alteration to the NW gable. The windows are fitted with four-pane glazing. A section of the building projects to the rear. Chimneys are located at the ends of the structure, and the roof is covered in slate. A drystone wall encloses the garden.
Local climate
Head Forester's House, Ratagan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,160 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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