Mount Hooley, Shore Lane, Wick is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 September 1983. House.

Mount Hooley, Shore Lane, Wick

WRENN ID
rooted-rafter-sage
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 September 1983
Type
House
OS grid reference
ND 365 510
Coordinates
58.44321, -3.08878
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Mount Hooley is a mid 19th century building featuring two storeys and a dormerless attic, with three bays. The structure is constructed of coursed local rubble with long and short ashlar dressings. It has a central door, a band course above both the ground and first floors, and a cill band at the first floor. There are blind panels above the first floor windows. The roof is made of slate. The property is complemented by square gatepiers topped with shallow pyramidal caps and surrounded by cast-iron railings.

Local climate

Mount Hooley, Shore Lane, Wick 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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