Sportsman's Walk Cottage, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 July 1987.

Sportsman's Walk Cottage, Dunrobin Castle

WRENN ID
grim-string-spindle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 July 1987
OS grid reference
NC 848 015
Coordinates
57.98833, -3.94914
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a two-storey cottage, likely built around 1840, situated near Dunrobin Castle. It has an asymmetrical design and is constructed of rubble with dressed ashlar stonework. A projecting gabled bay is located on the left side, and the entrance is sheltered within a porch set in a re-entrant angle. A hoodmoulded four-light window is present on the ground floor to the left, with a bipartite window above and to the right of the entrance. A gabled dormer is also visible. The windows feature horizontal pane glazing, and there are coped stacks at the ends and rear of the building. The roof is slate-covered with projecting eaves.

Local climate

Sportsman's Walk Cottage, Dunrobin Castle receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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