Boundary Walls, Former United Free Church, Errogie is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 2004.
Boundary Walls, Former United Free Church, Errogie
- WRENN ID
- lost-gutter-cobweb
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 2004
- OS grid reference
- NH 563 225
- Coordinates
- 57.27105, -4.38462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Former United Free Church in Errogie was likely built in the early 1900s, following the formation of the United Free Church from the Free and United Presbyterian Churches in 1900. It has been disused since 1987. This church is a standard pattern prefabricated timber-framed and corrugated-iron clad structure made by Spiers & Co. of Glasgow, as indicated by the nameplate it bears. It is one of several such buildings transported to various locations throughout the Highlands in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, though few remain in largely intact condition.
The church has a rectangular plan and is set on a masonry plinth, with its entrance gable facing southeast towards the road. The site, along with the adjacent manse, is enclosed by harled rubble walls with rough-dressed curved coping stones, and features circular and domed gatepiers that are also harled. Notable architectural elements include a vestry wing that projects at the northeast corner, a timber belt course, door and window bands, and gablehead detailing. The windows are shallow-arched externally with top hoppers, and there is a 3-light window set high up, along with a polygonal gable-head window above the pulpit and an axial ventilator. A porch, likely intended as the minister's entrance since it faces the manse, abuts the vestry. The main entrance features a two-leaf door with decorative hinges. The church is finished with cream-painted cladding and timber painted green. The interior has v-lined walls and has been largely stripped of its original church furnishings as of 2004.
Local climate
Boundary Walls, Former United Free Church, Errogie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 71 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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