Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings
- WRENN ID
- rooted-doorway-elm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Address
- Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings, KW3 6BN
- OS grid reference
- ND 247 362
- Coordinates
- 58.30806, -3.28549
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are a group of mid-19th century dwellings located on a corner site at the junction of Wick Road (A9) and Main Street in Lybster. The complex includes a tall, two-storey and attic terrace, and a row of service cottages.
The main terrace comprises four two-bay dwellings, with four projecting canted bays facing west onto Main Street. This section returns to Wick Road with a four-bay frontage. A later, slightly different section of two two-storey and attic, four-bay dwellings abuts the original terrace to the south, with one having paired shop windows on the ground floor. Each house features three gabled dormers with finials that break the wallhead. The buildings are constructed of coursed rubble with tooled dressings. Some original 12-pane windows remain, as do long, narrow rear stair windows. There are ridge and end stacks, and a slate roof.
A mid-19th century row of single-storey service cottages runs parallel to the A9, with its north gable facing the road. This row has seven bays, two doorways, and a large garage door in the end (south) bay. It is similarly constructed of rubble, with end and ridge stacks, and a Caithness slate roof.
A slightly later two-storey, four-bay range appears on the corner site, and was not shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1871.
Local climate
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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