Laundry, Dunvegan Castle, Skye is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle laundry. 1 related planning application.
Laundry, Dunvegan Castle, Skye
- WRENN ID
- night-corbel-nightshade
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Castle laundry
- Address
- Laundry, Dunvegan Castle, Skye, IV55 8WF
- OS grid reference
- NG 246 490
- Coordinates
- 57.44771, -6.59116
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Laundry at Dunvegan Castle, located on Skye, was built in 1734. It is a single-storey building with seven bays, constructed from random rubble with ashlar dressings. The main elevation faces east and features five bays with a central door, flanked by two bays that include a door and a window. All the architraves are cavetto moulded. The building has crowstepped gables, end stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Laundry, Dunvegan Castle, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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