Archway And Bell Tower, Waternish House Steading, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Steading. 1 related planning application.

Archway And Bell Tower, Waternish House Steading, Skye

WRENN ID
waiting-remnant-frost
Grade
C
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
Steading
Address
Archway And Bell Tower, Waternish House Steading, Skye, IV55 8GB
OS grid reference
NG 260 571
Coordinates
57.52122, -6.57801
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The archway and bell tower at Waternish House Steading, dated 1864, features a segmental headed arch set in the gable end of what was once a covered entrance to the farm court. The structure is made of rubble with ashlar dressings. At the apex, there is a stepped square plinth that supports a slender steeple bellcote, which contains a bell within an arched void. Flanking the archway, coped rubble walls rise to the height of the wallhead.

Local climate

Archway And Bell Tower, Waternish House Steading, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,450 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% 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 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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