Husabost House, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. House.

Husabost House, Skye

WRENN ID
seventh-spire-kestrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
House
OS grid reference
NG 201 515
Coordinates
57.46723, -6.66912
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Husabost House, located on Skye, is a house originally built around 1800, featuring two storeys and three bays. It has undergone later additions that created a cruciform plan. A large two-storey wing was added around 1840, which projects from the centre of the east front of the earlier house. There is a square projecting crenellated porch at the re-entrant angle formed by the two arms of the building. The rear (west) elevation of the old house includes a two-storey, two-bay wing, along with small single-storey wings at the gable ends. Some 12-pane glazing remains intact, and the house has end stacks and slate roofs.

Inside the 1840 addition, there is a dining room with a drawing room above it. The drawing room features a coved, enriched plaster ceiling, and there is a small curved stair with a slender handrail.

Local climate

Husabost House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,620 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% 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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