Post Office, Castle Street, Dornoch is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. Post office. 1 related planning application.

Post Office, Castle Street, Dornoch

WRENN ID
crumbling-tower-tarn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Type
Post office
Address
Post Office, Castle Street, Dornoch, IV25 3SD
OS grid reference
NH 798 896
Coordinates
57.88003, -4.02842
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Post Office on Castle Street in Dornoch was built around 1900 in the Arts and Crafts style. It features a mix of rubble and tooled ashlar dressings and has an asymmetrical design with two storeys. The south elevation includes two entrances with hood moulds, one of which has "Post Office" carved on a curved lintel. The building has a gabled roof and is adorned with two- and three-light windows that have multi-pane glazing. It also has tall end stacks, a slate roof, and a red tile ridge.

Local climate

Post Office, Castle Street, Dornoch receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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