Congregational Manse, High Street, Avoch is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1981. Manse.
Congregational Manse, High Street, Avoch
- WRENN ID
- low-pavement-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1981
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NH 701 551
- Coordinates
- 57.56748, -4.17185
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Congregational Manse on High Street in Avoch is a building from the mid-19th century that was re-cast around 1900. It has one storey and an attic, featuring three bays, with the central bay rising to two storeys and having an advanced gabled design. The entrance is a central door framed by pilasters and a key-blocked architrave, topped with a shell tympanum. The exterior is harled with painted margins. There are two timber gablet dormers with wooden finials, and the roof is covered in slate. A stone dyke with a coping runs along the lane side of the property.
Local climate
Congregational Manse, High Street, Avoch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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