Seafield House, Portree, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. House.

Seafield House, Portree, Skye

WRENN ID
sharp-gargoyle-jackdaw
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
8 September 1982
Type
House
OS grid reference
NG 479 434
Coordinates
57.41106, -6.19801
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Seafield House is a late 18th or early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house located in Portree, Skye. It features a central door and has a single-storey and attic, three-bay wing at the rear. The exterior is constructed of whitewashed rubble with painted margins. A square projecting porch with a piended roof has a side entrance and a front window. The house has 12-pane sash windows and end stacks, topped with a slate roof. There is a modern dormer on the rear wing and a low retaining wall with spearhead cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Seafield House, Portree, Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,970 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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