Shooting Box And Bothy, Loch Ashlaich is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1994. Shooting box, bothy.

Shooting Box And Bothy, Loch Ashlaich

WRENN ID
sharp-minaret-smoke
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1994
Type
Shooting box, bothy
OS grid reference
NH 409 235
Coordinates
57.27497, -4.63996
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Shooting Box and Bothy at Loch Ashlaich date from around 1855. The Shooting Box is a single-storey, timber-framed structure located on an island site, measuring approximately 4.5 meters by 20 meters. Its interior is lined with timber and insulated with heather, while the roof is made of corrugated iron over a tarred shingle style timber. The main façade is symmetrical, featuring four doors, each flanked by timber, two-leaf shuttered windows that lead into separate rooms. The building has two ridge stacks and blank end gables. Inside, the ceilings are coombed with varnished boarding, and there are plain, painted stone chimneypieces with shallow, hood-like canopies.

The Bothy is also a single-storey structure with a gabled roof, located on the shore. It has a rectangular plan, with a door and a shuttered window on the main elevation, as well as a shuttered window on the gable end.

Local climate

Shooting Box And Bothy, Loch Ashlaich sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 50 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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