Stable And Steading, Erchless Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Stable And Steading, Erchless Castle
- WRENN ID
- fallen-render-frost
- Grade
- B
- 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 409 409
- Coordinates
- 57.43072, -4.65033
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stable and steading, probably designed by Thomas Muirison around 1815, underwent extensive alterations in the late 19th century. It forms a large, north-facing hollow square, incorporating dwellings, a carriage house, stables, and various offices. The original construction uses coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, while later sections are built with bullfaced rubble and contrasting tooled ashlar sandstone dressings.
A two-story, off-centre tower stands above a round-headed arched entrance, featuring Venetian windows on both the front and rear faces, and a clock face within the pediment. Ball finials adorn the gable apices. Single-story and loft ranges flank the tower, ending in crowstepped outer bays. Numerous segmental-headed entrances are present throughout the structure.
The south-facing elevation is symmetrical, with another round-headed entrance beneath a crowstepped gable, topped with a small cupola and weathervane. Stable ranges with three bays flank this entrance, terminating in advanced crowstepped bays containing paired round-headed carriage houses. The ten-bay east elevation, at a single story with an attic, is divided into five dwellings, with gabled dormers breaking the wallhead. Roll moulding is visible on door and window jambs, and the windows have multi-pane glazing.
The west elevation accommodates further dwellings and additional offices. Coped ridge stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate. A complete square existed by 1873, as indicated on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Stable And Steading, Erchless Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 72 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 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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