Scorrybreck House, Scorrybreck Road, Portree, Skye is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

Scorrybreck House, Scorrybreck Road, Portree, Skye

WRENN ID
old-forge-solstice
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
House
Address
Scorrybreck House, Scorrybreck Road, Portree, Skye, IV51 9DH
OS grid reference
NG 486 438
Coordinates
57.41536, -6.18734
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Scorrybreck House is a late 18th or early 19th century building with an addition designed by architect James Ferguson in 1829. The house is harled and consists of two storeys with three bays, along with a single storey, one bay wing on the southwest gable. The ground floor features later bipartite windows, and the addition includes a later canted bay and a piended dormer. There is a piended porch at the centre door, and the house has end stacks and a slate roof. The property is marked by round rubble gatepiers topped with simple round caps and stone finials, as well as rubble retaining walls.

Local climate

Scorrybreck House, Scorrybreck Road, 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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