North Western Range, Duirinish Byres is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
North Western Range, Duirinish Byres
- WRENN ID
- narrow-finial-indigo
- Grade
- B
- 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 784 313
- Coordinates
- 57.31879, -5.68147
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A group of fifteen drystone byre and barn structures, dating to the 18th and 19th centuries, are situated at Duirinish. These buildings form a U-shaped enclosure, with the Duirinish-Drumbuie road closing off the open end. Most of the buildings are approximately 36 feet by 18 feet, with some joined gable to gable, and one is roofless. They feature horizontally halved doors and vented sides, with the louvres primarily consisting of vertically laid lengths of barked, unfinished slender timber. Corrugated iron has replaced the original thatched roofing.
Local climate
North Western Range, Duirinish Byres sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,100 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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