Old Ferintosh, Urquhart is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Old Ferintosh, Urquhart
- WRENN ID
- veiled-storey-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Ferintosh, Urquhart, IV7 8HU
- OS grid reference
- NH 576 582
- Coordinates
- 57.59137, -4.38237
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Old Ferintosh in Urquhart is a double-pile house with its rear portion dating from 1777 and the front block from the mid-19th century. The building has two storeys and is harled with ashlar margins. The front features three bays, with a central door that has a bracketed cornice above it. The first-floor window in the center is bipartite with lying panes. The rear block has scrolled skewputts, and the roof is slated. There is also a later outshot at the rear.
Local climate
Old Ferintosh, Urquhart sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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