Lairg Free Church Of Scotland Church Hall, Ord Place, Lairg is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.
Lairg Free Church Of Scotland Church Hall, Ord Place, Lairg
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-shingle-sedge
- 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
- NC 579 058
- Coordinates
- 58.01898, -4.406
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circa 1845 church hall, located on Ord Place, Lairg. Originally constructed as a single-storey, south-facing building, it began as a three-bay house with a central doorway on its eastern facade. Later, a three-bay school was added, with an entrance in the east gable. A subsequent porch now links the hall to the church, masking the original school entrance. The building is constructed of harl-pointed rubble with tooled stone dressings. The windows have regular placement and feature simple wooden transoms, mullions, and lattice-pane glazing. Coped end stacks rise from the slate roof. The design of the hall is comparable to that of the former Free Church school and teacher's house in Golspie. The Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland (circa 1858) mentions the building on page 281.
Local climate
Lairg Free Church Of Scotland Church Hall, Ord Place, Lairg sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 56 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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