Tollhouse, Forss is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Tollhouse, Forss
- WRENN ID
- idle-soffit-fern
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tollhouse, Forss, KW14 7XY
- OS grid reference
- ND 037 686
- Coordinates
- 58.5955, -3.65698
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The tollhouse in Forss is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the mid to late 19th century. It features white-washed rubble and has a west-facing front with a central door and flanking windows, along with canted gables that have windows. At the southeast, a short wing projects to the rear, and there is a row of kennels at the northeast, creating a U-shaped rear courtyard. The building has paired ridge stacks and a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Tollhouse, Forss sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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