Tulach Ard is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 1 related planning application.
Tulach Ard
- WRENN ID
- mired-passage-solstice
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Tulach Ard, IV40 8EG
- OS grid reference
- NG 825 265
- Coordinates
- 57.27781, -5.60892
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Tulloch Ard is a house dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, with additions and alterations made in 1871 by Alexander Ross. The house is harled with painted margins and has two storeys and three bays, constructed as a double pile building. A later addition matches the dimensions of the original house and extends the frontage. A slightly projecting gable sits centrally, with a corniced entrance and bipartite windows to the ground and first floors of the outer bays. A single piended dormer window survives in the original section, alongside some 12-pane windows; elsewhere, the windows are 4-pane. Corniced end stacks rise from the house, and it has a slate roof. A single-storey wing extends to the rear.
Inside the earlier section of the house is a curved staircase with a barley-sugar twist balustrade. To the west, the remains of a three-bay rubble cottage are visible, and it's thought this may have been a former manse. A rubble L-plan steading with a byre is also present on the property. An advertisement for tenders relating to the 1871 alterations appeared in the Inverness Advertiser on 8th September 1871.
Local climate
Tulach Ard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- 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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