Dairy, Dochfour House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Dairy, Dochfour House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chancel-river
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 606 394
- Coordinates
- 57.42418, -4.32287
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a later 19th century single-storey, Picturesque hexagonal dairy with a single bay extending to the east. It stands on a shallow, stepped plinth. The walls are of sneck coursed rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. There is a door to the dairy itself and a separate door to the dairy room on the south elevation. Windows are positioned in each of the four facets of the dairy, each featuring coloured and margined glazing. A coped end stack is located on one wing, and a central apex vent is present on the dairy. A shallow piended slate roof extends to create a verandah which encircles the dairy and is supported by rustic cast-iron columns. The dairy does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1870.
Local climate
Dairy, Dochfour House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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