Graveyard Museum, West Argyle Street, Ullapool is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Graveyard Museum, West Argyle Street, Ullapool
- WRENN ID
- silent-forge-fen
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Address
- Graveyard Museum, West Argyle Street, Ullapool, IV26 2TY
- OS grid reference
- NH 126 939
- Coordinates
- 57.89594, -5.16208
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Graveyard Museum, located on West Argyle Street in Ullapool, is a church designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1829. Plans and specifications were prepared by James Smith, who also acted as the contractor. It is a standard T-plan church constructed of coursed squared rubble, with the side and rear elevations finished with harling. The architectural detailing is enhanced by contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The south elevation features a depressed arched entrance and paired windows with detailed cast-iron 2-light, latticed glazing in the central bays. Similar windows are found in the end gables and on the east and west elevations of the T-wing. A bellcote sits atop the apex of the west gable, and the building is covered with slate roofs.
The interior is a plain galleried space. The associated burial ground is enclosed by pair of gate piers constructed from squared dressed rubble with caps, and a coped drystone wall. The parish of Ullapool was separated from Lochbroom in 1833.
Local climate
Graveyard Museum, West Argyle Street, Ullapool sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,720 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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 — 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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