Slaughter House, Redcastle Mains, Redcastle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981.
Slaughter House, Redcastle Mains, Redcastle
- WRENN ID
- eternal-screen-furze
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- OS grid reference
- NH 585 496
- Coordinates
- 57.51522, -4.3624
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century slaughter house, built as an oblong single-story building with bowed ends and a bowed piended roof. The building is constructed of cherry pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. The south-facing elevation has two wide doors positioned at the angle of the bow, each with a bull's eye vent above. Two similar vents are located on the north wall. A dormer window was later inserted into the north side, and this is now incorporated into a later steading. The original doors have been blocked and windows inserted, and a central door was added at a later date. The roof is slate and has a stone ridge. The building was possibly used as a slaughter house and is said to have later been used as dog kennels. A ceiling was inserted, and the interior was subsequently re-used as a farm office or grieve’s room. The statutory address is Redcastle Steading Oval Building by Stable Square.
Local climate
Slaughter House, Redcastle Mains, Redcastle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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