Eilean Shona House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. House.
Eilean Shona House
- WRENN ID
- winding-mortar-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NM 655 729
- Coordinates
- 56.78911, -5.84089
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eilean Shona House is a later 19th century gabled house that incorporates elements from a simple 2-storey, 3-bay house built in the late 18th or early 19th century. The exterior is primarily constructed of harl pointed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings, while the rear features some random rubble with harling, suggesting the presence of an earlier structure.
The southeast-facing facade is irregular with 2 storeys and 4 bays, featuring a gabled entrance porch located in an off-centre re-entrant angle, which includes a round-headed entrance. To the left, there is a projecting wing with a ground floor canted bay window, and to the right, a lean-to verandah connects to a square bay window with a lean-to roof. The windows are mainly bipartites with 2-pane glazing and wooden finials at the ends. The house has end and ridge stacks, and the slate roofs have projecting eaves. An irregular rear wing is mainly 2 storeys with an attic.
Inside, the decoration and fittings were designed by Robert Lorimer in 1897, showcasing a simple Arts and Crafts style. The dining room features moulded wooden chimney pieces, some adorned with simple carved floral motifs, and one is dated 1897 and initialled SCT (S. C. Thomson). The drawing room includes simple panelling, a brass grate with a marble surround, and a moulded mantelpiece. The entrance lobby has a panelled dado and a green marble surround to a small grate. The staircase features a "cut-out" floral motif on the panelled balustrade. On the first floor, the billiard room has simple panelling with a raised floral design and two original chimney pieces.
Local climate
Eilean Shona House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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