Free Church Manse, Jamestown is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Manse.

Free Church Manse, Jamestown

WRENN ID
dark-chimney-falcon
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Type
Manse
OS grid reference
NH 478 565
Coordinates
57.57356, -4.54511
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Free Church Manse in Jamestown, built around 1844, is a symmetrical two-storey, three-bay house facing south, with a slightly later rear wing added around 1850. The exterior is harled, featuring contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The central doorway is margined and has a projecting moulded cornice supported by pendant brackets; it includes a fanlight with margined glazing and a double leaf panelled door. The front windows have a heavy centre mullion and consist of 8-pane sashes, with the ground floor windows being taller than those on the first floor. The rear wing creates an L-shaped court and includes a later single-storey service porch with 12-pane glazing in the windows. The house has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.

Local climate

Free Church Manse, Jamestown sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 46 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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