Ford Park, Main Street, Golspie is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 March 1971.

Ford Park, Main Street, Golspie

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 March 1971
OS grid reference
NC 838 001
Coordinates
57.97528, -3.96585
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ford Park is a two-storey, three-bay house dating from 1824 to 1827, facing south. The exterior walls are harled, with tooled ashlar margins. An entrance, originally central, is now masked by a later projecting gabled porch, which has a front window and a side door. The west gable has two ground floor and one first floor window; the ground floor windows are taller than those on the first floor, and all have 12-pane glazing. The building features an eaves band, angle margins, corniced end stacks, and a piended slate roof to the front. There are two valleys to the rear. A later single-storey and attic wing, matching the detailing of the main house, was added to the rear.

A high, coped garden wall borders the property. Ford Park was rebuilt on or close to the site of a former manse.

The house’s construction was documented in a letter from James Loch to Lady Stafford in 1824, which indicated that economies were being practiced during the building process due to the need for repairs to several manses. Dornoch Manse was repaired at this time. Early 19th-century plans of the site are held at the Scottish Record Office, reference RHP11682. The New Statistical Account of 1834 provides further details.

Local climate

Ford Park, Main Street, Golspie receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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