Achranich Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Manager's house.
Achranich Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate
- WRENN ID
- eternal-brick-jackdaw
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Manager's house
- OS grid reference
- NM 704 473
- Coordinates
- 56.56164, -5.73803
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Achranich Farmhouse, located on the Ardtornish Estate, was designed by Samuel Barham in 1880. This asymmetrical two-storey building features a rear U-plan court, with the entrance to the house on the west elevation and the entrance to the estate office on the east. The entire structure is finished in rendered concrete.
The manager's house has a nearly symmetrical three-bay arrangement of windows, with the central door positioned slightly off-centre. The long four-bay front elevation faces south, with a gabled wing that projects slightly at the southwest corner.
The estate office has an irregular four-bay elevation, with two bays located in the gable end. It features an off-centre door and some blind windows. A slated and glazed canopy extends above the ground floor windows, supported by wooden brackets, and encircles the building except on the north side. The windows include bipartites and tripartites with multi-pane glazing, and some windows have hoodmoulds. The gable ends are adorned with decorative bargeboards, and the building has corniced ridge stacks and slate roofs that project over the eaves.
Local climate
Achranich Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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