Fassfern House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Fassfern House
- WRENN ID
- winter-stair-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Address
- Fassfern House, PH33 7NP
- OS grid reference
- NN 020 787
- Coordinates
- 56.85779, -5.24764
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fassfern House is an early to mid-18th century house with substantial additions and alterations made in the 19th century. The south-facing main facade is arranged as three blocks of three bays each, with a projecting rear wing. The central two-storey, three-bay section represents the oldest part of the house. It is symmetrical, with narrow windows and a central doorway that has been blocked and replaced with a window. The rear elevation has small windows; two are visible on each floor.
To the west of the central block is another two-storey range, slightly higher than the centre, with an attached rear wing. Extending to the east is a single-storey portion with an attic. Most windows have 12 panes of glass, and the roof is slate-covered, with renewed stacks.
Behind the house are two long, single-storey steading ranges arranged at right angles to each other. These are also harled. A rubble-walled garden lies to the rear of the house.
Historically, Prince Charles Edward Stuart spent one night at Fassifern (previously spelled Fassifern) during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Further information can be found in Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland and Donald MacCulloch’s Romantic Lochaber.
Local climate
Fassfern House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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