Glenelg Slipway (Kylerhea Ferry) is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 2009. Slipway. 2 related planning applications.
Glenelg Slipway (Kylerhea Ferry)
- WRENN ID
- noble-casement-heath
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 2009
- Type
- Slipway
- OS grid reference
- NG 794 213
- Coordinates
- 57.22915, -5.65564
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Glenelg Slipway, designed by Thomas Telford between 1818 and 1821, is a dressed whinstone slipway that features a rare cattle droving ramp. It is situated at the shortest crossing point between the mainland and the Isle of Skye, serving the Kylerhea Ferry. There is a counterpart slipway located on the opposite bank of the Kyle Rhea in Strath Parish.
The slipway consists of large dressed whinstone blocks arranged in courses that slope into the water. It is paved with stone setts, although it has been covered with concrete screed since 2009.
The cattle ramp measures 90 feet by 20 feet and is oriented at a right angle to the slipway. It is laid with roughly coursed cobbles and features a natural rock embankment on the east side. To the west, there is a 120-foot rubble bulwark that curves at an angle where it joins the slipway.
Local climate
Glenelg Slipway (Kylerhea Ferry) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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