Barrock Free Church is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Church.
Barrock Free Church
- WRENN ID
- inner-corbel-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- ND 256 712
- Coordinates
- 58.62245, -3.28114
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barrock Free Church is a large rectangular double-aisled church built in 1844. It features six-bay flanks that are all rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, with tooled ashlar margins. The northeast entrance front is wide and gabled, consisting of three bays. It has a round-headed entrance and a round-headed window above, located in the advanced center bay, which rises to full height and ends in a shallow pyramidal roof with simple apex finials. Flanking the entrance are round-headed windows with multi-pane glazing, along with small blind round-headed lancets above. A band course runs along the building.
The six-bay side elevations have plain rectangular fenestration, with thick wooden mullions and transoms, also featuring multi-pane glazing. There is a single blind window on the northeast side and a simple single-storey, single-bay Minister's room at the southeast. The symmetrical paired gables at the southwest (rear) each contain a single window, glazed like those on the flanks, with small blind vents above them.
The church is topped with slate roofs. The entrance is marked by a pair of plain square rubble gate piers with simple square caps, and it is enclosed by a drystone wall that is coped.
Local climate
Barrock Free Church 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 greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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