Castlehill House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Castlehill House
- WRENN ID
- fading-pedestal-ivory
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Address
- Castlehill House, IV2 5BA
- OS grid reference
- NH 696 442
- Coordinates
- 57.46961, -4.17461
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlehill House is an earlier 19th century house built symmetrically with two storeys and three bays facing northwest. It is fronted by an earlier single-storey, U-shaped range. The house is white harled with margins and dressings of tooled ashlar. A corniced portico of Roman Doric columns masks the central door. The ground floor has deeply bowed, three-window bays, while the first floor has tripartite windows in the outer bays. A single, later first-floor oriel window is located in the northeast return gable. Multi-pane glazing is present throughout. A margined base course and a shallow parapet to the bowed bays form a continuous band course. Projecting, margined flues rise the full height of the house, terminating in corniced wallhead stacks. The roof is of shallow piended slate with projecting eaves.
The rear range consists of a single-storey, three-bay cottage centrally located, flanked at right angles by further single-storey cottages. These have been much altered with the addition of later dormers and porches. End stacks are visible on the centre gabled cottage, and a centre ridge stack is on the outer wings, which have piended slate roofs.
Local climate
Castlehill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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