Old Manse, Acharacle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1971. Manse. 2 related planning applications.

Old Manse, Acharacle

WRENN ID
western-steeple-moss
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1971
Type
Manse
Address
Old Manse, Acharacle, PH36 4JU
OS grid reference
NM 676 681
Coordinates
56.74717, -5.80225
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Old Manse in Acharacle is a single-storey manse designed by Thomas Telford in 1829. It has a shallow H-plan layout with five bays. The exterior is harled with painted tooled margins. The northeast front features a central door, and the projecting outer bays are present at both the front and rear, with the rear bays infilled. The windows have 2-pane glazing, and the building has a piended slate roof with a single ridge stack, as the second stack has been removed. A simple drystone wall encloses the garden.

Local climate

Old Manse, Acharacle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,050 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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