Stemster House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
Stemster House
- WRENN ID
- dark-trefoil-linden
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stemster House, KW12 6UX
- OS grid reference
- ND 183 608
- Coordinates
- 58.52852, -3.40397
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Stemster House is a mid to late 19th century, symmetrically fronted, two-storey house with an attic and five bays. It likely incorporates an earlier dwelling in its central portion. The south front and side elevations are harled, while the rear is constructed of coursed rubble, featuring ashlar margins and dressings.
The main entrance is through a centrally located door set in an advanced gabled ashlar porch, which has moulded lugged architraves. This porch is flanked by advanced gabled bays that contain tripartite windows with moulded architraves on the ground floor. The other windows are large and have thick wooden centre mullions. In the set-back lower outer bays, the first-floor windows break the wallhead beneath crowstepped pediments, and there are small attic windows in the gables of the second and fourth bays.
The rear of the house has a roughly E-plan layout, with two-storey, two-bay wings on either side and a central gabled wing that features a large window and an apex stack. The building includes multi-pane glazing, quatrefoil motifs in the pediments and gable heads, crowsteps, corniced end stacks, and slate roofs.
Local climate
Stemster House 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 greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Radon risk assessment
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