Walled Garden, Strathgair House, Strath, Gairloch is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971.
Walled Garden, Strathgair House, Strath, Gairloch
- WRENN ID
- steep-barrel-cream
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- OS grid reference
- NG 798 774
- Coordinates
- 57.73269, -5.69879
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Strathgair House comprises a former parish manse with associated steading and walled garden. The manse dates originally to 1805, with substantial additions in 1823 and further repairs and possible additions in 1847. The original building was a two-storey and attic, three-bay manse with a central door on its south facade. A large, two-storey, two-bay piended wing was added symmetrically to the south front in 1823, incorporating a side entrance leading to the original central door. Single-storey, single-bay wings were added to the east and west gables between 1823 and 1847, these being of differing constructions. The building is constructed of harled rubble with contrasting painted, tooled dressings. The windows are predominantly 8-pane sash windows, and there are corniced end and wallhead stacks, with slate roofs. Piended dormers may also date from 1823.
Behind the house is a large, U-plan steading forming a court, constructed of whitewashed rubble with a slated roof. A coped rubble walled garden is also present.
References include the New Statistical Account and an advertisement for tenders in the Inverness Courier, May 18, 1847.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Strathgair House, Strath, Gairloch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,780 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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