Sutherland Arms Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.
Sutherland Arms Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie
- WRENN ID
- drifting-ledge-frost
- Grade
- B
- 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
- NC 839 004
- Coordinates
- 57.97846, -3.96401
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sutherland Arms Hotel, dated 1808 with 19th-century additions, occupies a Z-shaped frontage on Old Bank Road in Golspie. The building is constructed of red rubble with contrasting tooled dressings.
The central section, dating to 1808, is two storeys and has an attic, with three bays arranged around a central doorway. Flanking this are lower, two-storey wings with two bays each. A projecting two-storey and attic extension, with three bays, is set at right angles to the main frontage and obscures the west wing. A three-bay wing sits to the rear of the east side, with a central doorway on the symmetrical east elevation. There are four piended dormers, largely featuring 12-pane glazing, and end and ridge stacks. The roofs are slate-covered.
Modern additions include a glazed sun porch and a covered way, which partially mask the building’s original frontage.
The hotel’s development is documented in James Loch’s “An Account of the Improvements on the Estates of Lord Stafford.”
Local climate
Sutherland Arms Hotel, Old Bank Road, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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