Granary And Cottage, Mains Of Lethen is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 January 1971. Granary.

Granary And Cottage, Mains Of Lethen

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 January 1971
Type
Granary
OS grid reference
NH 937 519
Coordinates
57.54475, -3.77667
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Granary and Cottage at Mains of Lethen is an early 18th century building that faces west. It is a two-storey structure with a wide three-bay layout, featuring a single-storey, single-bay addition on the south gable. Attached to this is a further single-storey, three-bay cottage with a central door, creating a continuous range on a south sloping site. The building includes some late 19th century windows and doorways, particularly on the rear east elevation.

Constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings, it features tooled late 19th century architraves. There is a stone forestair leading to the first-floor entrance in the south outer bay of the main block, along with a moulded eaves cornice. A former string or band course across the west gable has been removed, and the original windows have simple chamfers. There is some evidence of blocked windows, and a late 19th century chimney stack is located at the centre of the west gable of the main block, while an early 18th century coped stack is found on the south gable of the cottage, which also retains original small windows. The building features crowsteps, cavetto skewputts, and local slate roofs.

Local climate

Granary And Cottage, Mains Of Lethen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% 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 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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