Colbost Croft Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982. Crofthouse.
Colbost Croft Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye
- WRENN ID
- broken-joist-starling
- 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
- Crofthouse
- OS grid reference
- NG 215 487
- Coordinates
- 57.44298, -6.64183
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Colbost Croft Museum is a traditional Skye crofthouse from the later 19th century. It is a single-storey building that is two bays wide. The right bay, or north side, serves as a single chamber, while the left side has an entrance to a former byre. There is an internal doorway connecting the chamber and the byre. The building has no windows and features a small metal ridge chimney. The roof is piended and thatched, made from either rush or marram, and is secured with netting weighted down by stones.
Inside, there is a half sawn planking partition separating the room from the byre, and a central hearth in the room with a crook above it. The floor is made of earth. The byre has a pebble floor and a small vent located at wallhead level.
The listing excludes the remains of the later 20th century Still House to the west.
Local climate
Colbost Croft Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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