Gate Piers, Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Gate Piers, Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer
- WRENN ID
- solemn-mortar-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NH 484 582
- Coordinates
- 57.58909, -4.53715
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ben Wyvis Hotel, along with its gate piers, was constructed in 1879, with later additions in 1884 and 1900-1901. It is a large, purpose-built hotel of three storeys and an attic, with an asymmetrical nine-bay north-west entrance front. The hotel is built of coursed grey rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. A wide, projecting arched porte-cochère features a decorative cast-iron balustrade, within which a glazed porch has been inserted to the right of the main building. A projecting wing, likely added between 1900 and 1901, extends to the north-east, with a three-storey canted end featuring bipartites on the ground and first floors, and gabled dormer heads to the second-floor windows. The windows are generally fitted with two-pane glazing, and there are piended dormers. End and ridge stacks are topped with a series of tall chimney cans. The roofs are covered in slate and project.
The gate piers are a pair of square, rusticated ashlar piers, each topped with square caps featuring small crenellated detailing. The gate piers are flanked by low coped quadrants with decorative cast-iron railings. W.C. Joass is believed to have been the architect for the main building, with a tender notice from 1873 referencing a large hotel development.
Local climate
Gate Piers, Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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