Walled Garden, Dochfour House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.

Walled Garden, Dochfour House

WRENN ID
south-chancel-autumn
Grade
C
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 602 389
Coordinates
57.41914, -4.32938
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The property comprises a house, a walled garden, and a former Factor’s office, situated on the Dochfour Estate. The house dates to around 1840 and is a single-storey building with an attic, laid out in a T-shaped plan with a broad southern elevation. It is harled, with margins of tooled ashlar. The main entrance is centrally located on the rear gable, but is now partially obscured by a later timber lean-to porch. This porch incorporates a side entrance and a large transomed and mullioned window with lattice-paned glazing. A later bipartite window is present on the ground floor of the rear wing, accompanied by a single gabled dormer above, likely dating to the late 19th century. The front elevation features a pair of gabled dormers and a later single-storey extension. Other features include 4-pane sash windows, a coped ridge stack, and a slate roof which projects at the eaves with simple bargeboards returning at the gable angles, suggesting broken pediments.

Behind the gardener’s cottage lies a large walled garden built of rubble, situated on a south-facing slope. The north wall is canted, with arched entrances positioned to the east and west. A central entrance in the south wall is closed by a wrought-iron gate. To the west of the garden is a single-storey wing, which previously served as the Factor's office for the Dochfour Estate. The property is currently part of the estate, although this has not always been the case.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Dochfour House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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