House, Skinnet Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House.

House, Skinnet Farm

WRENN ID
secret-brick-indigo
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Type
House
OS grid reference
ND 127 617
Coordinates
58.53485, -3.49954
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Skinnet Farm is a house built in the later 18th century. It faces east and features a symmetrical design with two storeys and three bays, flanked by single-storey, two-bay wings. The exterior is finished in harled rubble. The central bay is slightly advanced and has a pediment, along with a small attic window and a central door. The outer bays of the wings are also slightly advanced and pedimented, with a later lean-to structure against the south gable.

The symmetrical rear elevation has a full-width catslide roof, a central stair window positioned just below the wallhead, and small piended dormers in the outer bays. The windows predominantly feature 12-pane glazing, and there are corniced end stacks, which have been renewed on the south side. The roof is covered with Caithness slate. Additionally, there is a low, roughly coped, rubble garden wall surrounding the property.

Local climate

House, Skinnet Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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