Eileanaigas House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 1 related planning application.
Eileanaigas House
- WRENN ID
- empty-hammer-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Address
- Eileanaigas House, IV4 7JP
- OS grid reference
- NH 468 418
- Coordinates
- 57.44118, -4.55262
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eileanaigas House is a rambling, two-storey house with a raised basement, built in 1839. It may incorporate an earlier core, alongside subsequent additions. The house is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The front facade is symmetrical, with three bays and a central door recessed behind a square porch. The doorway is topped with a segmental head and a carved shield above a cast-iron apex cross. The house extends to the rear, with varied heights and fenestration incorporating a two-story, transomed and mullioned canted bay window opening onto a garden terrace. The roof is slate, with varied coped stacks, some set diagonally, a small apex bellcote, and crowsteps.
Inside, the drawing room and library open off the entrance hall, each with large, double-leaf panelled doors. A panelled chimney-piece, incorporating carved wooden finials, is in the rear dining room. A staircase with turned balusters leads to the rear of the house.
The house stands on an island location in the River Beauly, accessed by a bridge. It was originally built by Lord Lovat and was subsequently occupied by the Sobieski Stuart brothers, and later by Sir Robert Peel during the summer months.
Local climate
Eileanaigas House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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 — 1 application
- 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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