1 Sandside, Sandside Harbour is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Harbour, dwelling, fishing store. 1 related planning application.
1 Sandside, Sandside Harbour
- WRENN ID
- rooted-sentry-tide
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Harbour, dwelling, fishing store
- Address
- 1 Sandside, Sandside Harbour, KW14 7RN
- OS grid reference
- NC 957 659
- Coordinates
- 58.56938, -3.79382
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1 Sandside, located at Sandside Harbour, is a harbour constructed around 1830. It features a simple rectangular basin formed by two projecting L-shaped arms, which have higher sea walls on the seaward (east) sides. The structure is made of rubble with tooled rubble dressings, and there is some seaward walling of vertical rubble masonry. The harbour entrance is grooved for a boom and includes remnants of a cast-iron boom-hoist.
Adjacent to the harbour are two dwellings, numbered 1 and 2 Sandside, also dating from around 1830. These are two-storey and attic buildings built against a bank, with access from both the east (harbour side) and west at the first floor. They are constructed of rubble with tooled rubble dressings, and the west elevation is white-washed. The east elevation has six bays, featuring two doors each with flanking windows, and two small windows on the first floor. The raised ground floor on the west side has a central door with flanking windows in the right bay, and two windows with a projecting lean-to masking the entrance in the left bay. The buildings have two ridge stacks and two end stacks, topped with Caithness slate roofs.
There is also a fishing store, built around the same time, which resembles 1 and 2 Sandside. This two-storey, six-bay rubble building is built into the bank and has a raised white-washed west elevation. The east facade is symmetrical, featuring two ground floor doors each flanked by windows, and four windows close to the wallhead. The raised (west) first floor has two symmetrical doors, with the right door having modern flanking windows added around 1982. The building also has a central ridge and end stacks, with a Caithness slate roof.
Local climate
1 Sandside, Sandside Harbour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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