Bornish House, South Uist is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 April 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Bornish House, South Uist
- WRENN ID
- solitary-grate-soot
- Grade
- C
- 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
- House
- Address
- Bornish House, South Uist, HS8 5SA
- OS grid reference
- NF 736 300
- Coordinates
- 57.24408, -7.41272
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bornish House is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house with a U-plan steading at the rear arranged symmetrically. The building is constructed from rubble and is whitewashed. The east elevation features a piended central porch, which is an addition, and has sash windows with lying-pane glazing. There are end stacks and a modern tile roof, along with a low rear wing.
Local climate
Bornish 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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