West Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
West Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath
- WRENN ID
- plain-flue-brook
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 161 298
- Coordinates
- 58.24924, -3.43098
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Cottage, formerly Mrs Mackay’s House, is part of a circa 1870 south-facing terrace of three houses connected to Tigh a Mhuilin to the west. The two eastern houses are linked internally to form a single dwelling, and the westernmost house is also joined internally to Tigh a Mhuilin.
Mrs Mackay’s House comprises three single-storey and attic, three-bay houses built of rubble with tooled dressings. Each has a central door, and three gabletted dormers project from the wallheads. The windows are timber sash windows with four panes, and there are ridge and end stacks. The roofs are slate covered. A modern single-storey, single-bay addition has been made to the east gable.
Tigh a Mhuilinn, dating to the late 19th century, is a single-storey and attic house with a slightly higher roofline and is also a three-bay house. It is constructed of rubble with cast concrete dressings. A central door is flanked by bipartite windows. Two bipartite dormers rise through the wallhead within bargeboarded gables. The windows have two panes, and the house has end stacks. The roof is slate.
The terrace faces south and overlooks the Dunbeath Water. The buildings are part of an estate village and have no street numbers.
Local climate
West Cottage, Mrs Mackay's House, The Village, Dunbeath receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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