Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings
- WRENN ID
- still-chapel-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Address
- Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings, KW3 6BN
- OS grid reference
- ND 247 361
- Coordinates
- 58.30791, -3.28548
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are a group of mid-19th century dwellings situated at the corner of Wick Road (A9) and Main Street in Lybster. The main block is a tall, two-storey and attic terrace consisting of four two-bay dwellings. Four canted bay windows face west onto Main Street, with a further four-bay frontage returning to Wick Road. These dwellings sit closely against the south gable facing Main Street. Directly adjacent is a slightly later range of two two-storey and attic, four-bay dwellings, one of which has a shop window inserted into the ground floor. Each house has three gabled dormers with finials that break the roofline. Some original 12-pane windows remain, along with long, narrow rear stair windows. The building features ridge and end stacks, and a slate roof.
Further along the A9 is a mid-19th century, single-storey row of service cottages fronting north. This row contains seven bays and two doorways, with a large garage door in the end (south) bay. It is constructed from rubble with end and ridge stacks, and a Caithness slate roof.
A later two-storey, four-bay range on the corner site was not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1871.
Local climate
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings 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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