Laundry, Duncraig Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. 3 related planning applications.
Laundry, Duncraig Castle
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ember-auburn
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NG 813 333
- Coordinates
- 57.33774, -5.63485
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This laundry building, dating from 1866, was designed by Alexander Ross in the Scottish Baronial style. It is a two-storey, three-bay gabled structure with a porch and external staircase. The construction is rubble with tooled dressings, and it features three bipartites (two-light windows) on its north-facing elevation, one on each floor. It has a slate roof topped with a small ridge cupola.
The laundry is part of the wider Duncraig Castle estate, which includes stables and a walled garden. Duncraig Castle itself is a large, asymmetrical, three-storey, nine-bay mansion with gabled and crenellated detailing, built of coursed rubble with tooled dressings. Two square, crenellated towers rise one stage above the roofline. A porte cochere is located at the south front entrance, and a large crenellated canted bay window projects from the north side. The stables form a symmetrical, two-storey, five-bay court with segmental headed arched entrance bays and two-pane glazing. A marble plaque above the stable entrance reads "FEAR GOD, WORK HARD, BE HONEST." An advertisement for tenders appeared in the Inverness Advertiser on 3rd April 1866, and further information is available from The Buildings of Scotland Research Unit. The estate is now used as a Home Economics College in the Highland Region and includes a single-storey service court with a chapel and an octagonal water tower. A large, modern addition is located to the east. The interiors feature original fireplaces, door surrounds and enriched ceilings.
Local climate
Laundry, Duncraig Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,130 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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