Parliamentary Manse, Poolewe is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.
Parliamentary Manse, Poolewe
- WRENN ID
- second-mullion-laurel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- OS grid reference
- NG 860 801
- Coordinates
- 57.75997, -5.59779
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a house, built in 1828 by Thomas Telford. It was originally a single-story building, but the central three bays were raised in the mid to later 19th century to create a two-story section, with single-story bays on either side. The house has a shallow H-shaped plan. The exterior is harled and has painted margins. A modern, flat-roofed porch obscures the main entrance, and a projecting stairwell with a piended roof is located at the rear. The windows have 12 panes of glass, and there are corniced end stacks. The roofs are slate, with piended roofs on the single-story bays. A drystone garden wall is also present. The rear stairwell appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1875, suggesting the heightening occurred before this date. The house is referenced in the Telford Atlas of 1838, plates 58 and 59.
Local climate
Parliamentary Manse, Poolewe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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