6 High Street, Fortrose is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Villa.
6 High Street, Fortrose
- WRENN ID
- steep-bailey-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1983
- Type
- Villa
- OS grid reference
- NH 724 564
- Coordinates
- 57.57998, -4.13432
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a later 19th century villa located at 6 High Street in Fortrose, constructed from snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The building is two storeys high and features three bays, with a central door. The outer bays have canted bay windows on the ground floor. A balcony with an ornamental cast-iron balustrade extends across the bay windows and the central entrance. The first floor has tripartite windows in the outer bays, and all windows are topped with gablet dormerheads. The roof is piended and slated. To the south-west, there is a single-storey wing with a piended roof that has cast-iron cresting.
Local climate
6 High Street, Fortrose 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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