Walled Garden, Upper Ostaig House, Upper Ostaig, Skye is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 1982.
Walled Garden, Upper Ostaig House, Upper Ostaig, Skye
- WRENN ID
- dusted-parapet-onyx
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire MP: Mr Angus MacDonald (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 1982
- OS grid reference
- NG 645 060
- Coordinates
- 57.08465, -5.88737
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stable and gighouse at Upper Ostaig House, located in Upper Ostaig, Skye, is an earlier 19th century structure featuring a simple classical design. It is a two-storey building with three bays and a central door. The exterior is harled with stone margins, and there is a later square porch that includes a side door and a front window set in a round-headed ashlar recess. At the rear, there is a wing, and the building has end stacks and a piended slate roof. Additionally, there is a rubble garden wall surrounding the property.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Upper Ostaig House, Upper Ostaig, 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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