Lybster Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

Lybster Mains

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
28 November 1984
OS grid reference
ND 253 363
Coordinates
58.30918, -3.27623
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lybster Mains is a rambling house dating to the mid-18th century and early 19th century, along with a store and garden walls. The main house is a two-storey building of varying heights, constructed from harled or whitewashed rubble. It comprises a lower two-storey block with a T-wing set back to the rear, creating a re-entrant space featuring a semi-circular porch. The windows are arranged asymmetrically, and the house has corniced end stacks and slate roofs.

Adjacent to the house is a two-storey store with a raised basement, also of whitewashed rubble. It has a slate roof and a central door on each floor within the east gable; the upper door appears as a window.

Rubble garden walls enclose the site, with a round-headed arched entrance abutting the store. The store was likely used as a barn and formerly served as Lybster Mains' agricultural buildings.

Local climate

Lybster Mains 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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