Portgower Inn, 90 Portgower, Portgower is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.

Portgower Inn, 90 Portgower, Portgower

WRENN ID
slow-bracket-honey
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
OS grid reference
ND 007 134
Coordinates
58.09893, -3.68542
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Portgower Inn, dated 1813, is a single-story building with an attic, presenting a symmetrical three-bay front. Built at a cost of $580, it features harl-pointed rubble walls with tooled dressings and painted margins to the first-floor windows. A datestone displaying the Sutherland and Stafford arms sits above the central doorway. Three gabletted dormers break the wallhead, and the building has four-pane glazing and end stacks with a slate roof. A lean-to single-story stable partially abuts the east gable. The inn is referenced in James Loch’s Improvements on the Estates of Lord Stafford (1820), which includes an illustration on plate 38.

Local climate

Portgower Inn, 90 Portgower, Portgower receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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