Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. 2 related planning applications.
Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer
- WRENN ID
- fallow-solder-hawk
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Address
- Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer, IV14 9DN
- OS grid reference
- NH 485 582
- Coordinates
- 57.58864, -4.53459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Ben Wyvis Hotel is a large, purpose-built hotel dating from 1879, with substantial additions made in 1884 and again between 1900 and 1901. It was designed as a hotel from the outset. The asymmetrical main block has three storeys and an attic, and the northwest-facing entrance front has nine bays. The exterior is of coursed grey rubble stone with contrasting tooled ashlar dressings. A wide, projecting arched porte-cochère features a decorative cast-iron balustrade, with a later glazed porch inserted to the right of the building. A projecting wing, likely dating from 1900-1901, extends to the northeast and incorporates a three-storey canted end with bipartites (two-part windows) on the ground and first floors, and piended dormer heads to the windows of the second floor. The windows are largely 2-pane sashes, with gabled dormer heads above some. The roof is slate, with end and ridge stacks topped with tall chimney cans.
A pair of square rusticated ashlar gate piers with square caps, detailed with diminutive crenellation, stand at the entrance. These are flanked by low coped quadrants with decorative cast-iron railings.
The architect for the main hotel building was possibly W. C. Joass, although a Tender Notice from 1873 discusses the construction of a large hotel.
Local climate
Ben Wyvis Hotel, Strathpeffer sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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