Drumossie Hotel is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. 6 related planning applications.
Drumossie Hotel
- WRENN ID
- night-slate-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Address
- Drumossie Hotel, IV2 5BE
- OS grid reference
- NH 705 428
- Coordinates
- 57.45749, -4.15982
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Drumossie Hotel, built between 1936 and 1939 by William Taylor of Carruthers Ballantyne and Cox architects in Inverness, is a long, two-storey building with an attic, extending across 22 bays on a north-sloping site. The site accommodates a raised basement at the north end. The ground floor is white harled, separated from the dry-dashed first floor by a continuous band course. A distinctive, three-storey, circular, flat-roofed drum projects from the main building, featuring balconies on the ground and first floors. A large water tower rises to the rear, extending above the roof ridge. A pend, or passageway, runs under a flat-headed archway, leading to rear parking and service areas. The building has regular window placement, with original metal horizontal glazing on the first floor, and casements in eleven wide piended dormers – each dormer lights two rooms – featuring single-pane glazing. The ground-floor windows have been replaced with single-pane glazing. The roofs are bellcast and slate-covered. Contemporary newspaper references document the hotel's planned construction and the scale of the project.
Local climate
Drumossie Hotel 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 — 6 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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