Farm Dwellings, Aimster Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Dwelling.
Farm Dwellings, Aimster Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quartered-wattle-onyx
- 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
- Dwelling
- OS grid reference
- ND 117 632
- Coordinates
- 58.54822, -3.51759
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Aimster Farmhouse is a farm dwelling built around 1860-1870. It features an east-facing, two-storey range with seven symmetrical bays, all of which are harled. The centre bay is slightly advanced and gabled, with a later projecting porch that covers the central door. The three outer bays on each side also have central doors. The windows have 12-pane glazing, and the building has corniced ridge and end stacks, topped with a Caithness slate roof.
Local climate
Farm Dwellings, Aimster Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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