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

Gesto House, 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
8 September 1982
Type
House
OS grid reference
NG 356 366
Coordinates
57.34325, -6.39511
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gesto House is a two-storey and attic house built in the mid to late 19th century. It features three wide bays with a central door and a gablet with a chimney in the middle. The exterior is made of roughly coursed rubble, with some harling and ashlar dressings. There is a large projecting roofless square porch at the entrance, tall windows on the first floor, and ornate floreated skewputts on the gablet. A wing extends to the rear of the house.

Local climate

Gesto House, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,910 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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