Old Inn, Kylerhea, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Inn, Kylerhea, Skye
- WRENN ID
- heavy-casement-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Inn, Kylerhea, Skye, IV42 8NH
- OS grid reference
- NG 788 209
- Coordinates
- 57.2253, -5.66502
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Inn in Kylerhea, Skye, is a two-storey, three-bay house built between 1801 and 1803 by James Gillespie (Graham). The building is harled, featuring a contrasting base course. It has a central door with a later porch that includes a side entrance and a front round-headed window. The first floor has small windows. To the north gable, there is a single-storey, four-bay wing added in 1818, which has a wide basket-arched entrance with long and short jambs. The house has end stacks and a slate roof, along with a modern boat store.
Local climate
Old Inn, Kylerhea, Skye 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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