Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. 3 related planning applications.
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-bay dwellings
- WRENN ID
- night-thatch-blackthorn
- 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 ' 4 2-bay dwellings, KW3 6BN
- OS grid reference
- ND 247 362
- Coordinates
- 58.30816, -3.28549
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are a group of mid-19th century dwellings located on a corner plot where the Wick Road (A9) meets Main Street in Lybster. The main terrace comprises four two-storey and attic houses with two bays each. The houses are constructed of coursed rubble stone with tooled dressings. Four canted bay windows face west towards Main Street, with the terrace returning to Wick Road and presenting a further four-bay frontage. A closely abutting, slightly later range of two two-storey and attic houses, each with four bays, adjoins the south gable facing Main Street; one of these houses features paired shop windows on the ground floor. Each house has three gabled dormers with finials that break the wallhead. Some original 12-pane windows remain, along with long, narrow stair windows at the rear, and ridge and end stacks. The roofs are covered in slate.
A mid-19th century row of single-storey service cottages runs alongside the A9, with their north gable facing the road. The row consists of seven bays, with two doorways, and a large garage door in the end (south) bay. The cottages are built of rubble stone with end and ridge stacks and a Caithness slate roof.
A slightly later two-storey, four-bay range on the corner plot does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1871.
Local climate
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 4 2-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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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