Seaforth House, 10 Academy Street, Fortrose is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983.

Seaforth House, 10 Academy Street, Fortrose

WRENN ID
gentle-pillar-curlew
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 August 1983
Address
Seaforth House, 10 Academy Street, Fortrose, IV10 8TW
OS grid reference
NH 726 564
Coordinates
57.58052, -4.13131
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Seaforth House, located at 8 Academy Street in Fortrose, was built in 1783. This tall three-storey house features three bays and a central door. The exterior is harled with raised ashlar margins. The windows on the first floor are taller than those on the ground floor, while the second floor has smaller windows. Notable architectural details include a moulded eaves course, scrolled skewputts with cable moulding and leaf decoration, and 12-pane sash windows. The house has a slate roof. There is a modern porch and small flanking windows, as well as modern window designs on the Academy Street side. A single gate pier is engaged in the north gable, which is coped and topped with a ball finial.

Local climate

Seaforth House, 10 Academy Street, Fortrose sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 55 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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