Free Church, Raasay is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Free Church, Raasay
- WRENN ID
- keen-wicket-fern
- Grade
- B
- 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
- Church
- Address
- Free Church, Raasay, IV40 8NT
- OS grid reference
- NG 556 362
- Coordinates
- 57.35089, -6.06293
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Free Church in Raasay, built around 1845-1850, is a simple rectangular church oriented roughly east to west. It features harled rubble with tooled dressings. The east gable has an entrance porch, which includes a pointed window and a bellcote above. Each side of the church has two large pointed windows with intersecting Y-tracery. Inside, the church has a simple galleried layout with bowed ends to the gallery, and it retains original fittings, including brass oil lamps mounted on wrought iron stalks. The roof is made of slate.
Local climate
Free Church, Raasay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,030 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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