Dunain Park is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. 2 related planning applications.
Dunain Park
- WRENN ID
- lesser-transept-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Address
- Dunain Park, IV3 8JN
- OS grid reference
- NH 636 426
- Coordinates
- 57.45359, -4.27459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunain Park is a substantial entrance wing built in the later 19th century and attached to a simpler, earlier house dating from the early 19th century. The wing fronts the gable of the original house. It is two storeys high, with a three-storey Italianate tower featuring a rounded entrance porch projecting to the east. The wing is constructed from rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings, while the earlier portion of the house, and the rear, are harled.
The porch features channelled detailing and capitals decorated with stiff leaf carvings on the nook shafts. Similar detailing appears on the tripartites in the second storey of the tower, which is topped with projecting eaves, a shallow piended slate roof, and an apex weathervane. A two-storey bowed bay window extends from the south gable.
The earlier house has irregular window placement and a two-storey canted bay window on the southwest. The windows have varied glazing, and the roof has end and ridge stacks. The roof is slate. Currently the building operates as the Dunain Park Hotel.
Local climate
Dunain Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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