Acharn Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 May 1985. Farmhouse.
Acharn Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate
- WRENN ID
- nether-cellar-thyme
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber MP: Brendan O'Hara (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NM 701 504
- Coordinates
- 56.5893, -5.7457
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Acharn Farmhouse, located on the Ardtornish Estate, was likely designed by Samuel Barham in 1892. This asymmetrical building features two stories and five bays. The exterior is made of concrete, rendered to resemble ashlar stone.
At the southwest corner, there is a wide projecting gabled bay that includes large two-light windows on both the ground and first floors. The entrance is situated in a re-entrant angle, with an additional entrance at the rear. The building has a prominent gabled dormer in the center that lights two rooms, while the west gable has blind windows on both floors. Some ground floor windows have pronounced hoodmoulds, and the glazing is multi-pane. The roof features two wide-corniced ridge stacks and is covered with slate, complete with overhanging eaves.
To the rear, there is a single-storey rectangular wash-house range that has an open central drying court. This structure is also rendered concrete and features an end stack and a slate roof.
Local climate
Acharn Farmhouse, Ardtornish Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,030 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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