Hand Crane, Isleornsay Harbour Pier, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 January 1995. Pier, doocot, well, crane.

Hand Crane, Isleornsay Harbour Pier, Skye

WRENN ID
pale-spandrel-thrush
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 January 1995
Type
Pier, doocot, well, crane
OS grid reference
NG 703 125
Coordinates
57.14588, -5.79853
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Hand Crane at Isleornsay Harbour Pier, dating from around 1800, is a drystone rubble pier connected to a sea-wall of similar but simpler construction, creating a quayed edge to a small bay. The pier's surface is now covered in cobbles set in cement mortar. At the end of the pier, there is a cast and wrought-iron hand crane with a wooden jib mounted on a post and plinth. Additionally, there is a well on the quay featuring a circular rubble cope. At the northern end of the quay, there is a small doocot with a square pyramid roof, made of lime-washed rubble walls and topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Hand Crane, Isleornsay Harbour Pier, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,990 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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