Curing Yard And House, Square Of Whaligoe, Whaligoe is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 August 1979. Former herring curing station.

Curing Yard And House, Square Of Whaligoe, Whaligoe

WRENN ID
stony-gallery-hyssop
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Type
Former herring curing station
OS grid reference
ND 320 403
Coordinates
58.34601, -3.16268
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Curing Yard and House in Whaligoe is an early 19th-century former herring curing station. It features a symmetrical, two-storey, south-facing, three-bay house with a central door that is sheltered by a piended porch, which also has a side entrance. On either side of the house are single-storey, three-bay wings, each with a central door and a piended roof. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and there is an inserted picture window in the east gable. The central portion has end stacks, and the roof is covered with concrete tiles. At the rear, the property is enclosed by a high coped rubble wall that includes a segmental-headed arched entrance located close to the house on the west side.

Local climate

Curing Yard And House, Square Of Whaligoe, Whaligoe receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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