Mains Of Applecross Farm, Applecross is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Farm steading.

Mains Of Applecross Farm, Applecross

WRENN ID
silent-loft-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Farm steading
OS grid reference
NG 712 443
Coordinates
57.43192, -5.81232
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mains of Applecross Farm is a mid-19th century U-plan single storey and attic farm steading. The central block is free standing and has five bays, creating an open square. The building is harled throughout. The central block features five segmental-headed cart arches, a gabled bay at the center with a small attic window, and a small ridge polygonal cupola topped with a leaded ogee roof and a fish weather vane. The flanking wings have gabled ends facing the front and include end stacks. The roofs are piended and gabled, covered with slate.

Local climate

Mains Of Applecross Farm, Applecross sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 2,140 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 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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