Staff Shelter, Dingwall Station is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1986. 10 related planning applications.

Staff Shelter, Dingwall Station

WRENN ID
keen-plinth-primrose
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 February 1986
Address
Staff Shelter, Dingwall Station, IV15 9JD
OS grid reference
NH 553 586
Coordinates
57.59482, -4.42215
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The footbridge at Dingwall Station is a significant structure dating from 1886. It is part of a single storey and attic shallow U-plan range that faces the entrance court to the west and the down platform to the east. The building is constructed from red tooled, coursed rubble, featuring contrasting tooled ashlar dressings.

The outer bays of the building project with crowstepped gables and finials, and there is an off-centre porch. The windows are hoodmoulded and feature mullioned and transomed designs, along with a small gabled dormer and multi-pane glazing. The roof is slate with red pottery ridge tiles, and it has tall ridge and well-head coped stacks.

On the down platform elevation, there is a glazed 7-bay canopy supported by decorative cast-iron columns. To the north, there is a timber-clad single storey L-plan range, now known as the Shunters' Bar, which includes a re-entrant angle infilled with a later flat-roofed extension. This area also features an entrance porch supported by cast-iron columns and has a slate roof.

Adjacent to the main range on the down platform is a staff shelter, which is a near square, painted timber-clad, single storey building with two bays. It has a panelled door and a tripartite window, topped with a piended slate roof that has projecting eaves.

On the up platform, there is a single storey, painted timber-clad 8-bay range with multi-pane glazing and a shallow pitched felt roof, which includes a single brick ridge stack.

The footbridge itself is made of cast iron and features a lattice balustrade.

Local climate

Staff Shelter, Dingwall Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 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 0.2°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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