Bertha's House, Littleferry is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Bertha's House, Littleferry
- WRENN ID
- hidden-shingle-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- OS grid reference
- NH 805 956
- Coordinates
- 57.93401, -4.01819
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bertha’s House is an earlier 19th century single-story, three-bay house with an attic. The walls are harled, and the front (south side) features a modern glazed sun porch that obscures the central doorway. Three piended dormers break the wallhead, and the windows have two panes of glass. Chimneys are located at each end of the building, and the roof is slate.
A store, likely dating from the earlier to mid-19th century, is situated at the rear. It is constructed of red rubble with roughly dressed long and short angle stones and lintels. The store has two wide entrances, and a forestair at the west gable leads to a first-floor door. It features square apex finials and a corrugated asbestos roof.
The house was formerly occupied by a lady named Bertha, and the store was probably used to store fishing gear.
Local climate
Bertha's House, Littleferry 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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