Leirinbeg House, Durness is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. House, steading.
Leirinbeg House, Durness
- WRENN ID
- under-gallery-moss
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1984
- Type
- House, steading
- OS grid reference
- NC 410 674
- Coordinates
- 58.56564, -4.73383
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Leirinbeg House in Durness dates from 1810 and is a two-storey, three-bay house that faces east. The central door is concealed by a later projecting gabled porch. The exterior is harled, featuring small first-floor windows positioned close to the wallhead, with 12-pane glazing. The house has corniced end stacks and a slate roof.
At the southwest corner, there is a small rubble steading that is at right angles to the house but remains separate, also with a slate roof. The property is surrounded by fine drystone walls that are coped, enclosing both the house and the garden.
Local climate
Leirinbeg House, Durness sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,490 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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