Carinish Primary School, North Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 April 1985. School, schoolhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Carinish Primary School, North Uist
- WRENN ID
- young-garret-sienna
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 April 1985
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- Carinish Primary School, North Uist, HS6 5EJ
- OS grid reference
- NF 818 609
- Coordinates
- 57.52646, -7.31657
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carinish Primary School, located in North Uist, was designed by architect Alexander Ross of Inverness and built around 1875. The building consists of a school and an adjoining schoolhouse, both constructed from whitewashed rubble.
The east elevation features the school on the right and the house on the left. The school has a prominent gable near the center, which includes a three-light classroom window and an oculus above it. To the right, there is a tall window topped with a gabled dormer head, and the roofs slope down over a porch in the re-entrant angle. Additionally, there is a two-light window in the north gable.
The schoolhouse is a single-storey structure with an attic, comprising two bays and a single attic window with a gabled dormer head. The openings are square-headed, with sash windows that have lying-pane glazing. The building features end and axial stacks, along with an axial vent over the school. The roofs are covered with slate, and there are modern additions at the rear.
Local climate
Carinish Primary School, North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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 — 4 applications
- 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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