Barn, Townlands Farm, High Street, Cromarty is a Grade A listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980. Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Barn, Townlands Farm, High Street, Cromarty
- WRENN ID
- seventh-steeple-wax
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 December 1980
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- NH 787 674
- Coordinates
- 57.68055, -4.03518
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The barn at Townlands Farm on High Street in Cromarty dates from around 1694 or 1695. It is a long rectangular structure that was originally a house, featuring a steeply pitched roof, crowsteps at the gable, and original skewputts. The building is constructed from red sandstone rubble.
On the south side, there is a central entrance with a worn armorial tablet above a yellow stone surround that has faint leaf decoration. Opposite this, in the center of the north elevation, is a simple chamfered doorway, along with an additional door located at the north-west corner. Inside, there is an inserted floor with an entrance at the west gable.
The east and west gables each have two paired quatrefoil vents, while the south elevation features five square vents just below the eaves, with the outer bays having paired vents and a central vent above the entrance. The roof is covered with corrugated iron, and there are later additions, including a lean-to cart shed.
Local climate
Barn, Townlands Farm, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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