Stables, St Mary's Church, Eskadale is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Stables, St Mary's Church, Eskadale
- WRENN ID
- stranded-wicket-spindle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 453 398
- Coordinates
- 57.42297, -4.57777
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stables, dating to circa 1826, are a near-square rubble structure with roughly tooled rubble dressings. Two entrances are visible, one from the road on the northwest side and another leading to the church path on the southeast side. The building is roofed with slate in a piended style.
Inside, the stable features a simple timber-ceilinged roof supported by chamfered wooden columns. These columns also served as tethering posts and incorporated slots for former trevises—partitions—providing accommodation for approximately 10 to 12 stalls. The floor is cobbled.
These stables represent an unusual survival, having been designed for temporary accommodation of riding horses during services at St Mary's Church. The building currently functions as a store, though it retains the traditional name of "stables".
Local climate
Stables, St Mary's Church, Eskadale sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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