Paye House, The Paye, Cromarty is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 December 1980. House.

Paye House, The Paye, Cromarty

WRENN ID
shadowed-kitchen-spindle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 December 1980
Type
House
OS grid reference
NH 790 673
Coordinates
57.67986, -4.03067
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Paye House is a late 18th century, two-storey, four-bay house located on The Paye in Cromarty. The exterior is harled with painted margins, and the corner margins are chamfered at the street corner up to the first floor level. The entrance is situated in the right centre bay, featuring 12-pane sash windows. The house has a slate roof and includes one window on each floor of the gable end facing Church Street.

Local climate

Paye House, The Paye, Cromarty receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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