Armadale Castle, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Castle. 4 related planning applications.
Armadale Castle, Skye
- WRENN ID
- ghost-buttress-brook
- 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
- Type
- Castle
- Address
- Armadale Castle, Skye, IV45 8RS
- OS grid reference
- NG 640 046
- Coordinates
- 57.07254, -5.89484
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Armadale Castle, located on the Isle of Skye, was designed by James Gillespie Graham between 1815 and 1820. Of this original design, only the entrance with flanking turrets and the stairs remain as ruins. The castle was later modified by David Bryce from 1856 to 1858 in a Tudor Gothic style, featuring sneck coursed tooled ashlar with ashlar dressings. The main structure consists of a central recessed three-storey, three-bay block with crenellated towers that rise to four storeys. The entrance is located in the western re-entrant angle.
The first-floor windows are small, featuring two and three lights with cusped heads, while the remaining windows are mostly three lights and mullioned. The towers have corbelled crenellation, and the rear exhibits a simple, nearly symmetrical window arrangement with a central wall-head stack.
Additionally, there is a small two-storey, two-bay addition with a single-storey wing to the east, which is harled and has ashlar dressings. This addition features two pedimented windows that rise through the eaves, along with end and ridge stacks, and a slate roof.
Local climate
Armadale Castle, Skye 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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