8 High Street, Cromarty is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980. House.
8 High Street, Cromarty
- WRENN ID
- endless-fireplace-barley
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1980
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NH 788 674
- Coordinates
- 57.68087, -4.03364
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a two-storey house with an attic, built in 1817, located at 8 High Street in Cromarty. The house has three bays and features a later inserted shop front in the right bay. It is constructed from rubble with painted ashlar margins and has ashlar dressings. The central entrance has a pilastered doorpiece with a decorative frieze and a panelled door. The windows are 12-pane sashes, and there is an eaves band along the roofline. The house has two piended dormers and a slate roof.
Inside, there is an enriched plaster ceiling and an ornate fireplace.
Local climate
8 High Street, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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