Sponish House, Lochmaddy, North Uist is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 September 1993. House.

Sponish House, Lochmaddy, North Uist

WRENN ID
gilded-gateway-wren
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Na h-Eileanan Siar
Constituency
Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 September 1993
Type
House
OS grid reference
NF 921 695
Coordinates
57.61032, -7.15738
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sponish House is an early 19th century, two-storey house with a basement, situated on sloping ground. It features a single-storey wing on the right and a three-storey wing added in the later 19th century on the left. The exterior is rendered.

The entrance elevation has a gabled porch that is raised above a flight of steps leading to the centre, with a boarded door. The windows are arranged regularly, with two windows on both the basement and ground floors, and three windows on the first floor, which are bipartite in the centre. The single-storey wing has two windows, while the left wing has two windows on each floor.

The house originally had timber two-pane sash and case windows, although the glazing has since been removed. The roof is missing, but tall coped gable stacks from the original block still remain.

Local climate

Sponish House, Lochmaddy, North Uist sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 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 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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