The Square, Roshven House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 December 1996. Farm buildings.

The Square, Roshven House

WRENN ID
solitary-solder-candle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 December 1996
Type
Farm buildings
OS grid reference
NM 709 786
Coordinates
56.84254, -5.75728
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Roshven House is a group of farm buildings dating from around 1860, constructed from harled and harl pointed rubble. The main barn and granary is an L-plan, two-storey structure. The west range features a rounded south gable, irregular window arrangement, and a wallhead stack on the west elevation to the right, along with a forestair leading to an upper door on the left of the east elevation. The north range has arrowslit ventilation in the east gable and is connected to the west range, with a loft door located at the re-entrant angle.

Adjacent to the northeast of the barn/granary is a cartshed and granary, positioned at right angles. This structure has three segmental-arched cart openings on the east side, ending at the northeast corner with a squat, engaged round tower topped with a conical roof and lead finial. The south gable has a half-hipped design with a hayloft door, while the north gable features a ground floor window and paired windows for the granary.

To the north of the cartshed and granary is a single-storey stable, which is also positioned at right angles. It has a rounded hipped gablehead, a wide door at the centre of the north side, and a small ventilator above the west gable.

There is also a single-storey bothy, a gabled cottage with doors facing south, small windows on the north side, and a stack at the east gablehead.

Finally, to the northwest of the barn/granary range is a carriage or implement shed, which is near-square in plan and features a gabled roof with a tall round arch on the north gable. The corners are rounded and corbelled to square at the eaves, and there is a roofless range adjoining to the east.

The buildings have grey slate roofs, with cast-iron rooflights on the granary and evidence of former small-pane sash and case windows.

Local climate

The Square, Roshven House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,280 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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