Strathsteven Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Strathsteven Cottages
- WRENN ID
- grim-barrel-alder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Address
- Strathsteven Cottages, KW9 6NL
- OS grid reference
- NC 880 017
- Coordinates
- 57.99078, -3.8944
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are late 18th century cottages, originally three single-story, two-bay dwellings linked at angles to create an east-facing rear courtyard. The cottages are built of rubble and were once whitewashed on the north elevation. A piended extension with three modern windows has been added to the north gable. Most windows retain their original nine-pane glazing. The cottages have crowstepped gables, corniced end stacks, and a heavy stone slate roof, with some areas re-roofed using dark, simulated slate tiles. A coped drystone garden wall surrounds the property, along with a small, single-story rubble outbuilding.
It is believed the cottages were formerly a “change house,” a type of inn. They are now used as two dwellings, with only one currently occupied. These buildings appear on a late 18th century map of the area.
Local climate
Strathsteven Cottages receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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