Fisherman's Bothy, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Fisherman's Bothy, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle

WRENN ID
sombre-lintel-hyssop
Grade
B
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 848 014
Coordinates
57.98727, -3.95
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Dated 1861, the Fisherman’s Bothy, located at Dunrobin Mains near Dunrobin Castle, is a single-storey building constructed of rubble with tooled dressings. It has a square central block topped with a steeply pitched pyramidal slate roof, which is finished with a louvred cupola featuring an ogee lead roof and a windvane. A projecting gabled porch is centrally located on the south front. A single-storey, single-bay wing projects from the centre rear of the building, and features a corniced ridge stack. The windows are tripartite and bipartite in design, with some lattice-pane glazing remaining. The roofs are slate and incorporate fish-scale banding. The building was designed by George Devey and is dated 1861.

Local climate

Fisherman's Bothy, Dunrobin Mains, Dunrobin Castle 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 lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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