Dun Caan, Duirinish is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
Dun Caan, Duirinish
- WRENN ID
- carved-pediment-claret
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- OS grid reference
- NG 785 313
- Coordinates
- 57.31903, -5.67966
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a mid-to-late 19th century cottage, originally comprising a single storey and two bays, with a single-bay extension to the west gable. The walls are harled. The roof is slate-covered and features a bargeboard dormer and end chimneys.
Local climate
Dun Caan, Duirinish sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,100 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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