Speybank, Braehead, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980.

Speybank, Braehead, Cromarty

WRENN ID
upper-terrace-cream
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 December 1980
OS grid reference
NH 787 676
Coordinates
57.68269, -4.03567
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Alvara is an early 19th century pair of two-storey, three-bay houses featuring central doors. Alvara has a sneck-harled exterior, while Speybank Villa is harled. Alvara includes two piended dormers and a later timber porch. The left window on the ground floor of Alvara has been enlarged. Both houses have scrolled skewputts and a slated roof.

Local climate

Speybank, Braehead, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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