Dower House, Highfield House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 March 1971. Cottage.
Dower House, Highfield House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-thatch-sparrow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NH 524 516
- Coordinates
- 57.53096, -4.46536
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dower House, Highfield House is a picturesque single-storey U-plan cottage built around 1830, with alterations made in the mid-19th century. It features a five-bay south-facing front and is harled with ashlar margins. The central door is flanked by mid-19th century side-lights and is set within an advanced, steeply gabled porch that has barge boarding and is supported by two painted wooden Roman Doric columns. This porch connects to canted bay windows on either side. The door is panelled. The wings of the cottage project from the outer bays at the rear, creating a U-plan court that has been largely infilled with lean-to extensions and modern box dormers. The windows include 1830s lying pane sashes and mid-19th century eight-pane casements. The roof is slate and features round end and ridge stacks on square bases, along with decorative cast-iron ridge cresting. A decorative cast-iron weather vane is positioned on the porch.
Local climate
Dower House, Highfield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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