The Leishman Centre, Achnacon Barn, Glen Coe is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 1980. 2 related planning applications.
The Leishman Centre, Achnacon Barn, Glen Coe
- WRENN ID
- stony-brass-crow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1980
- Address
- The Leishman Centre, Achnacon Barn, Glen Coe, PH49 4LA
- OS grid reference
- NN 118 566
- Coordinates
- 56.66379, -5.07214
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Leishman Centre comprises a late 18th to early 19th century house and a former barn, located at Achnacon in Glen Coe.
The house is a symmetrical, two-storey, three-bay structure. It is harled throughout, with a central door on the northwest front, now mostly hidden by a later porch with a side entrance and a piended slate roof. The windows are four-pane, and the end chimney stacks have been renewed. The roof is slate. A small, rear lean-to is linked to the house by a connecting passage.
The barn, now the Leishman Centre, dates to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This rectangular, two-storey building has long northwest and southeast facing elevations. Situated on raised ground, a central door on the southeast frontage is accessed via a long, ramped pathway that runs the full length of the building. The northwest elevation features a pair of long, narrow ventilation slits flanking a first-floor window (formerly a winnowing door), with further doors and windows illuminating the former stables and byres in the raised basement. The barn has multi-pane glazing, modern Velux skylights to the roof on the southeast side, and a slate roof. This is a "bank barn" of the Lochaber type, with access to the first-floor threshing and storage barn achieved via the ramp, and stock accommodation and stabling located in the ground floor (or raised basement). Achnacon was formerly the home of the Stewarts of Achnacon. The building now houses the Glencoe Mountain Rescue HQ.
Local climate
The Leishman Centre, Achnacon Barn, Glen Coe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,070 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 52 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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