Askernish House, South Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.
Askernish House, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stone-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Askernish House, South Uist, HS8 5SY
- OS grid reference
- NF 735 239
- Coordinates
- 57.18931, -7.40623
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Askernish House is a farmhouse built in 1835, featuring two storeys and three bays, along with a full-height, single bay rear wing. The exterior is harled, with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The west elevation includes a piended central porch with a door located in the re-entrant angle. The windows are 12-pane sash and case, with a 4-pane window at the centre of the first floor. There are single bays on either side, and the building has symmetrically placed axial stacks topped with a piended slate roof. A modern sun lounge has been added to the southeast.
The house is set within a quadrangular garden enclosure, which includes rubble-built gatepiers and walls, with some sections partly renewed in brick towards the east next to a modern office. There are square gatepiers to the west, each topped with pyramidal caps.
Local climate
Askernish House, South Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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