Meikle Urchany is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 November 1983. House.
Meikle Urchany
- WRENN ID
- swift-mullion-rowan
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1983
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 881 501
- Coordinates
- 57.52778, -3.86878
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Meikle Urchany is an earlier 19th century, single storey and attic, 3-bay house. The north front is harled, while the later rear wing has harled flanks with tooled ashlar margins. The central door is approached by three steps and features a corniced and pilastered shallow doorpiece, with flanking windows that also have cornices. There are two windows in the wide east gable, with lying pane glazing in the original house. The house has three gabletted later dormers, each with 8-pane sashes, as well as coped end and ridge stacks, and slate roofs.
Local climate
Meikle Urchany receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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