West Schoolhouse, Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.

West Schoolhouse, Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit

WRENN ID
strange-flint-frost
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
OS grid reference
NH 509 295
Coordinates
57.33238, -4.4775
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glenurquhart Secondary School in Drumnadrochit is a long, single-storey school building, likely designed by Alexander Ross in the later 19th century. It faces south and is flanked at either end by single-storey and attic, three-bay schoolhouses. The structure is built of red sneck coursed rubble, featuring contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and long and short detailing.

The central school block has nine bays, with the outer and central bays slightly advanced and two entrances located in projecting porches that abut the outer gables. The outer gables have paired long pointed-headed windows, while the center features similar triple windows. All the smaller windows throughout the building have pointed heads. Each schoolhouse has a central door beneath a bargeboarded slated canopy, with flanking pointed-headed windows that match those of the main school. Segmental-headed windows are present in the outer bays, rising into gablets. The glazing consists of four-pane windows, with multi-pane glazing in the long windows. The gables include blind trefoil vents, and the building has coped ridge and end stacks, topped with slate roofs that have projecting eaves.

The school is fronted by cast-iron spearhead railings with matching gates and slender octagonal cast-iron gate piers. Coped rubble garden walls enclose the schoolhouses, featuring paired gates and similar gate piers as those at the school.

Local climate

West Schoolhouse, Glenurquhart Secondary School, Drumnadrochit sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% 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 66 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 0.3°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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