Watten Mains is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 April 1971. House.
Watten Mains
- WRENN ID
- burning-postern-barley
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ND 252 561
- Coordinates
- 58.48714, -3.28439
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Watten Mains is a two-storey and attic house dated 1763, featuring a symmetrical three-bay front that faces south. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted ashlar margins. The central entrance has a plain fanlight above it, and there is a gablet above the door that includes a small attic window with a round-headed dated pediment and an apex stack. The house also has two later 19th-century canted dormers and 12-pane glazing. At the rear, there is an irregular single-storey and attic wing with a projecting porch on the east side, which mainly has lying-pane glazing. The house has corniced end stacks and a roof made of West Highland slate, with Caithness slates on the rear.
Local climate
Watten Mains 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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