Foyers Mains Steading is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 April 1986.
Foyers Mains Steading
- WRENN ID
- proud-stone-mint
- Grade
- C
- 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 492 206
- Coordinates
- 57.25118, -4.50012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Dovecot and Hen House at Foyers Mains Steading is a steading built in 1865. It features a single storey and loft E-plan range that faces northwest, with courtyards that have been infilled, likely slightly later, with covered cattle courts. The building is constructed from harl pointed rubble with tooled ashlar dressings. The central range has paired segmental-headed cart bays with prominent keystones and a loft door in the middle. At the apex, there is a bellcote (though the bell is missing) that includes a datestone at its base and a cast-iron weathervane. The flanking cattle courts have similar wide entrances, ridge vents, and ridge and end stacks, all topped with a slate roof.
At the rear of the steading, there is an unusual low octagonal structure that appears to have been designed for use as both a henhouse and dovecote. This structure has four-paned windows located below the eaves level and dovecote flight-holes in the gablets. It is also made of rubble and features a facetted slate roof, possibly dating from 1865 as well.
Local climate
Foyers Mains Steading sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 66 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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