East Steading Range, Fassfern House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971.
East Steading Range, Fassfern House
- WRENN ID
- inner-marble-tarn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- OS grid reference
- NN 021 787
- Coordinates
- 56.85815, -5.24714
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The East Steading Range at Fassfern House comprises an early to mid-18th century core with significant 19th-century additions and alterations. It is a two-storey, south-facing range divided into three sections of three bays each, with a projecting rear wing. The central two-storey, three-bay portion is the oldest part of the range, exhibiting a symmetrical front elevation. The original central doorway has been blocked and replaced with a window, with small rear windows, two on each floor. A slightly higher two-storey range is located to the west (left), also with a rear wing. A single-storey and attic portion extends to the east (right). The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, and the roof is slate-covered, with renewed stacks. The exterior walls are of rubble construction, and some areas are harled. Behind the house are two long, single-storey steading ranges set at right angles to each other. A rubble-walled garden is located behind the house. Fassifern (previously spelled Fassifern) is noted as having been a one-night stop for Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the 1745 Jacobite rising.
References: Groome's ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND, iii (1883), p.11; Donald MacCulloch, ROMANTIC LOCHABER (1939) pp.190-2.
Local climate
East Steading Range, Fassfern House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,090 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 45 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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