West Kiln And Steading, Hillhead Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983.
West Kiln And Steading, Hillhead Farm
- WRENN ID
- buried-corridor-sedge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 September 1983
- OS grid reference
- ND 372 514
- Coordinates
- 58.44662, -3.07638
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The East Kiln and Steading at Hillhead Farm is an early to mid-19th century corn drying kiln. It features a circular design with a corbelled interior and a central round chimney, measuring approximately 12 feet in internal diameter and about 20 feet high. The structure is built from rubble. It is connected to a single-storey barn and a three-bay cottage, which is currently disused as a dwelling, both of which are also constructed from rubble and topped with slate roofs.
To the west, there is an L-plan range of farm buildings that ends in a bowed bay, which includes the remaining part of the former circular kiln, complete with a circular coped stack. The kiln barn range has four doors and one small window on the west elevation, along with a single wallhead gabled loft window on the east side. The south-facing range has various enlarged entrances. The slate roofs are shaped around the carved gable of the kiln.
Local climate
West Kiln And Steading, Hillhead Farm 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 82% 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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