Porters Lodge, Armadale Castle, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Lodge.

Porters Lodge, Armadale Castle, Skye

WRENN ID
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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
Lodge
OS grid reference
NG 634 035
Coordinates
57.06223, -5.90323
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Porters Lodge at Armadale Castle on Skye is an early 19th-century building. It has an octagonal shape and is constructed from whitewashed rubble. Some Gothic-style glazing remains. The roof is also octagonal and covered with slate, featuring a central cluster of three square chimneys arranged in a diamond pattern, which have been renewed. There is a new wing added to the rear of the building. Inside, the ceilings have simple moulding.

Local climate

Porters Lodge, Armadale Castle, Skye 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 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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