Manish School, Harris is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. School, schoolhouse. 1 related planning application.
Manish School, Harris
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-iron-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- School, schoolhouse
- Address
- Manish School, Harris, HS3 3EZ
- OS grid reference
- NG 109 895
- Coordinates
- 57.80159, -6.867
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Manish School, designed by Alexander Ross of Inverness around 1875, is a notable example of his standard design adapted for the Outer Isles, including the Uists. This building combines a school and a schoolhouse into one structure. The single-storey schoolhouse features an attic and has mullioned classroom windows positioned beneath jerkined roofs. The exterior is harled with slate roofs, and the windows are sash style with a 4-pane glazing pattern.
The school is primarily L-shaped, with one entrance located in a rear outshot and a porch situated in the re-entrant angle at the front. It has an axial stack. The schoolhouse has a two-bay front, consisting of a door and a single window, with a bipartite attic window in the gable head below the axial stack. Additionally, there is a detached block with four lavatory doors and a garden shed for the master. The property is enclosed by rubble-built boundary and playground walls.
Local climate
Manish School, Harris sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 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 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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