Boundary Wall, Vallay House, Vallay is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 July 2021.
Boundary Wall, Vallay House, Vallay
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rood-ebony
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 July 2021
- OS grid reference
- NF 773 758
- Coordinates
- 57.65688, -7.41216
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Vallay House, also known as Taigh Bhalaigh, is a large, two-storey mansion built between 1901 and 1904 in the Scots Baronial style. It features an irregular plan with multiple gabled roofs, crowstepped gables, circular turrets, and roundel windows. The house is situated on the uninhabited tidal island of Vallay, located off the northwest coast of North Uist in the Western Isles.
The structure is primarily made from local gneiss stone, with a cement or concrete rendered exterior. The exterior walls extend to the roofline and include wall head chimneys. Some original sash and case timber window frames with multi-panel upper sashes remain, although parts of the roof and internal floors have collapsed.
The interior has not been accessed as of 2020, but it is believed to contain 25 rooms. Photographs from 2009 and 2015 indicate that remnants of the early 20th-century decorative scheme are still present. These features include glazed tile and timber fireplaces, decorative plasterwork, carved timber window surrounds, and fitted shelving recesses.
To the west of the house, there is a boundary wall made of gneiss rubble with cement coping in a castellated style.
Local climate
Boundary Wall, Vallay House, Vallay sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,480 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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