3 Argyle Street, Dornoch is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 2 related planning applications.

3 Argyle Street, Dornoch

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Address
3 Argyle Street, Dornoch, IV25 3LA
OS grid reference
NH 799 896
Coordinates
57.88024, -4.02561
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Barrs-Fair, located at 2 Argyle Street in Dornoch, is a pair of two-storey, three-bay houses built in the earlier to mid-19th century. Each house features a central door and later additions of projecting gabled timber porches. The buildings are constructed of rubble with tooled dressings, and they have corniced end and ridge stacks topped with slate roofs.

No. 2 has multi-pane glazing with narrow margin panes, while No. 3 has four-pane double glazing. Additionally, there is a rubble garden wall with a tooled coping, and at No. 3, there are a pair of square rubble gate piers topped with pyramidal caps.

Local climate

3 Argyle 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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