Kessock Hotel, Main Street, North Kessock is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 October 1982.
Kessock Hotel, Main Street, North Kessock
- WRENN ID
- idle-lead-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1982
- OS grid reference
- NH 654 479
- Coordinates
- 57.5016, -4.2478
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Kessock Hotel, also known as the Eilean Dubh Inn, is a mid-19th century building that was significantly altered at a later date. The exterior is roughcast harled. A wide veranda runs the full length of the front elevation, supported by square wooden posts featuring latticed spandrels. There are five nine-pane sash windows on the ground floor, and three bipartites (windows divided vertically into two panes with a central mullion) above. The roof is hipped, constructed with heavy flags, and incorporates end stacks (chimneys).
Local climate
Kessock Hotel, Main Street, North Kessock sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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