Westerdale Church Of Scotland is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 1 related planning application.
Westerdale Church Of Scotland
- WRENN ID
- strange-garret-ebony
- 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
- Westerdale Church Of Scotland, KW12 6UP
- OS grid reference
- ND 128 516
- Coordinates
- 58.44441, -3.49408
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1844, the Westerdale Church of Scotland is a simple, low T-plan church, originally a Free Church, and still in ecclesiastical use. The building is constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings. It features a projecting room for the Minister in the centre of the south elevation, with a stack on its eastern side. The north wing is attached to the main body of the church. Small porches mask the entrances in the north-east and north-west re-entrant angles. The south elevation has four shallow, pointed-headed windows, with similar windows in the gables and rear wing. The windows have wooden mullion and transom details, with plain Y-struts in the upper lights and lattice pane glazing. The roof is covered with artificial slate.
The interior is plain, and the rear wing has been partitioned into a separate room. Seating is slightly raked. A circa 1860 Gothic panelled pulpit, with angle carved wooden ball finials and a lower front session clerk's desk, is positioned at the rear. The pulpit has a wide, coved tester with moulded ribs and cornice decorated with four simple pendants.
The church is enclosed by a simple roughly coped drystone wall with a pair of wooden gates that have Gothic detailing.
Local climate
Westerdale Church Of Scotland 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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