Schoolhouse, School, Ferness Village is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 June 1979.
Schoolhouse, School, Ferness Village
- WRENN ID
- dusted-stone-honey
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1979
- OS grid reference
- NH 962 449
- Coordinates
- 57.48289, -3.73131
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a school located in Ferness Village, dating from the later 19th century. It is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays and a central door. The exterior features harled pointed rubble with tooled dressings and harled flanks. There are two barge-boarded dormers that rise through the eaves in the outer bays, and the windows have 2-pane glazing. The building includes a wing at the rear with coped end stacks and slate roofs.
At the rear (north) of the main building, there is a single-storey, two-bay schoolroom built within the re-entrant, along with a single-storey, single-bay addition that has a piended roof and 6-pane glazing, all covered with slate roofs.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, School, Ferness Village sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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