Boleskine Old Manse is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986. Manse.
Boleskine Old Manse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-paling-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NH 505 179
- Coordinates
- 57.22745, -4.47691
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Boleskine Old Manse is a house built between 1773 and 1775. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure facing south, constructed from harled pointed squared rubble with tooled rubble dressings. The central door is concealed by a later gabled porch and features a panelled design. The ground floor has two-light windows that were enlarged around 1830 to 1840, with multi-pane glazing. The house has margined end stacks and a slate roof. Additionally, there is a coped rubble garden wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
Boleskine Old Manse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 78 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 61 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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