Skirinish House, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. House, cottage, steading.
Skirinish House, Skye
- WRENN ID
- carved-porch-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- 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
- House, cottage, steading
- OS grid reference
- NG 414 509
- Coordinates
- 57.47482, -6.31499
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Skirinish House is a late 18th century, two-storey building with an attic, featuring three bays and a central door. The house is constructed of white-washed rubble with large boulder footings. It has a projecting central porch with a side entrance, which is flanked by a narrow hall window. The first-floor windows are smaller than those on the ground floor, and there are three later gabled dormers with four-pane glazing. The house has end stacks and a slate roof.
At the rear, there is a later two-storey, two-bay wing built in a similar style. Additionally, there is a mid-19th century single-storey, five-bay cottage, which was formerly two dwellings, linked to the west gable of the main house by a modern extension. This cottage is also made of white-washed rubble and features end and ridge stacks, topped with a corrugated iron roof.
There is an early to mid-19th century rubble steading, which includes a two-storey central block with an off-centre depressed arched cart bay, flanked by a stable with a corn loft above. Single-storey byres are located on either side of the steading.
Local climate
Skirinish House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,760 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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