The Old Manse, Stittenham Road, Helmsdale is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984. 1 related planning application.

The Old Manse, Stittenham Road, Helmsdale

WRENN ID
open-stair-tarn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
Address
The Old Manse, Stittenham Road, Helmsdale, KW8 6JG
OS grid reference
ND 026 156
Coordinates
58.11885, -3.65455
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Old Manse is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1845. It is harled with contrasting, painted tooled ashlar margins. The south front is symmetrical, featuring a central door and large windows. Later additions include windows on the east return gable and ground floor. The windows are mostly 12-pane sash windows. The building has corniced end stacks and a slate roof. The property includes a wall and gate piers. A reference to the building appears in Ewing’s Annals of the Free Church, volume ii, page 221.

Local climate

The Old Manse, Stittenham Road, Helmsdale 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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