Mile House, Insh is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 August 1986.
Mile House, Insh
- WRENN ID
- grim-mortar-raven
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1986
- OS grid reference
- NH 838 042
- Coordinates
- 57.11482, -3.9194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an early 19th century, east-facing single-storey, three-bay cottage located within the Cairngorms National Park. The cottage is constructed of white-washed rubble, with a later single-bay timber-boarded extension that is continuous with the south gable. The central door is masked by a painted, weather-boarded gabled porch; a small four-pane casement window is to the right, and a diminutive window is to the left. End stacks are present, and the roof is covered in corrugated iron. The weather boarding and timber extensions are typical of constructions in Speyside, reflecting the abundance of sawn timber for building. The corrugated iron roof replaced an earlier thatched roof. A stack at the north gable appears to have replaced a thatched "lum," which served a former canopied hearth. The cottage now functions as a hostel for a mountaineering club.
Local climate
Mile House, Insh sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 85 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 67 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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