Howlin House, Eigg is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 February 1998. Farmhouse.
Howlin House, Eigg
- WRENN ID
- distant-postern-yarrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NM 479 895
- Coordinates
- 56.92842, -6.14462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Howlin House is a late 18th century farmhouse with minor alterations from the late 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with widely spaced bays, built from limewashed rubble. The central door is concealed by a later gabled porch made of red corrugated iron. There is a window to the left of the door and another door to the right that leads to the byre and hayloft. Each bay on the first floor features a window, while the gable to the right is blank. A lean-to porch is attached to the gable on the left side.
The windows are timber 4-pane sash and case, with one hopper timber window on the first floor front. The doors are boarded. The roof is made of black corrugated iron, with coped skews and coped stone gablehead stacks.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
Howlin House, Eigg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,220 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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