Gardener's Bothy, Arisaig House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House.

Gardener's Bothy, Arisaig House

WRENN ID
second-rotunda-bittern
Grade
B
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
House
OS grid reference
NM 692 849
Coordinates
56.89805, -5.7903
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gardener's Bothy at Arisaig House is a tall, two-storey building with an attic, designed by Philip Webb in 1864. It is situated on a sloping site and features a wide segmental-headed archway that connects the lane to the walled garden at the southeast end. The building is constructed of random rubble with tooled ashlar dressings.

The southeast gable is buttressed and includes a first-floor window and a long attic window beneath a relieving arch. There is a similar attic window in the northwest gable. The northeast elevation has paired first-floor windows, also under relieving arches, located to the right of a central wallhead stack and above a squat lean-to.

A modern glazed lean-to, resembling a glasshouse and added between 1981 and 1982, obscures much of the southwest elevation and the ground floor entrance. The building has a steeply pitched slate roof with deep soffitted eaves projecting at the northeast.

The archway leading to the bothy is closed off by a simple pair of plank gates and a single pedestrian gate, each featuring long blacksmith's hinges. Inside, the bothy has a simple layout with a modern staircase, as it was restored as a dwelling in 1981-1982.

Additionally, there is a long single-storey gardener's shed range that extends from the northwest gable. This structure uses similar building materials and is partially open to the northeast, supported by five square wooden columns with curved flanking struts, all resting on square rubble plinths that increase in height to accommodate the sloping site.

Local climate

Gardener's Bothy, Arisaig House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,490 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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