House, The Village, Dunbeath is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 1 related planning application.

House, The Village, Dunbeath

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Address
House, The Village, Dunbeath, KW6 6EG
OS grid reference
ND 160 298
Coordinates
58.24934, -3.43134
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a pair of houses dating to circa 1870, situated in The Village, Dunbeath. Each house is two storeys in height and three bays wide, with a central front door. The walls are of rubble construction, with tooled rubble dressings. Each house has three gabletted dormers projecting from the roofline, four-pane glazing in the windows, end chimney stacks, and slate roofs. The west dwelling was the childhood home of the writer Neil Gunn. The statutory address is Dunbeath, The Village (Macewen and Farquhar).

Local climate

House, The Village, Dunbeath receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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