School And Schoolhouse, Kinacarra, Kinlochmoidart is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. House, school.
School And Schoolhouse, Kinacarra, Kinlochmoidart
- WRENN ID
- idle-tower-bistre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- House, school
- OS grid reference
- NM 700 727
- Coordinates
- 56.78967, -5.76747
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The school and schoolhouse at Kinacarra, Kinlochmoidart, were likely designed by William Leiper, with alterations and additions made around 1885. This asymmetrical two-storey house is connected to a single-storey school that adjoins the east gable. The exterior is finished with harl pointed rubble and features tooled rubble dressings.
The house has a central door that is concealed by a tall, projecting gabled porch, which includes timber frame detailing and multi-pane glazing on the door and sidelights. On the west side, there is a canted bay window that rises to the full height of the building and is topped with a facetted slate roof. The walling between the ground and first floor windows breaks the eaves under a shallow swept dormer.
The single-storey, two-bay wing on the west gable connects to the school. The school itself is a single-storey structure with a wide gable, linked to the house on the east side. It features a gabled porch with a front entrance and a double leaf plank door at the centre of the east elevation. The south gable has a large centre two-light window beneath a tile-hung canopy. Both buildings exhibit varied glazing, with some decorative lattice pane glazing still present in the bay windows of the schoolhouse. The buildings have end stacks, slate roofs with projecting eaves, and a decorative tile ridge on the school, along with pottery finials throughout.
Additionally, there is a single-storey, two-bay rubble outbuilding in the garden to the east, which has a slate roof and a tile ridge.
Local climate
School And Schoolhouse, Kinacarra, Kinlochmoidart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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