Manse, Bona Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.

Manse, Bona Church

WRENN ID
grim-cupola-frost
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
OS grid reference
NH 595 376
Coordinates
57.40769, -4.34007
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

A late 19th century manse and former church building, constructed of rubble with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. The buildings present a continuous south-facing elevation, with the church positioned to the east and the manse to the west.

The church features a gabled porch projecting from its east gable. The south front has three bays, with a wide, gabled west bay containing a long, pointed-headed window with traceried detailing and a side entrance door. All windows incorporate simple tracery and leaded glazing. A ridge bellcote is topped with a pyramidal, bellcast slate roof and a cast-iron apex weather vane (the bell is now missing).

The two-storey manse, of irregular three-bay layout, reflects the design of the church. A projecting gabled porch, located in the re-entrant angle, masks the central doorway, which is positioned in a slightly projecting wide gabled west bay. The manse has bipartite and tripartite window arrangements, featuring two-pane glazing, and coped end stacks. Both buildings are roofed with slate, with projecting eaves.

The buildings are currently in ecclesiastical use.

Local climate

Manse, Bona Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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