Whaligoe Steps is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984. Steps, quay. 1 related planning application.

Whaligoe Steps

WRENN ID
pitched-ember-gold
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
Steps, quay
OS grid reference
ND 321 402
Coordinates
58.34565, -3.16158
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Whaligoe Steps are a set of steps from the mid-18th century, which have undergone significant renovations and repairs in the early 19th century. The flight consists of 330 flagstone steps that descend a steep cliffside from a former curing station to the quay below. The quay itself dates to the early 19th century and is a raised rubble platform where boats were hauled from the sea. A part of the winch that was used on the platform still survives.

Local climate

Whaligoe Steps receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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