Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings
- WRENN ID
- upper-newel-falcon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1984
- OS grid reference
- ND 247 361
- Coordinates
- 58.30777, -3.28548
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a group of mid-19th century dwellings situated on a corner plot at the junction of Wick Road (A9) and Main Street in Lybster. The main group consists of four two-storey and attic terrace houses arranged at an angle. They are built of coursed rubble with tooled dressings. Four two-bay sections project, with canted forms facing west towards Main Street, and the terrace continues along Wick Road with a four-bay frontage. A further, slightly later range of two two-storey and attic, four-bay dwellings abuts the original terrace to the south. One of these later houses has shop windows incorporated into the ground floor. Each house features three gabled dormers with finials breaking the roofline. Some original 12-pane windows remain, along with long, narrow rear stair windows. The roof is slate covered, with ridge and end stacks.
To the north, set back from the A9, is a mid-19th century row of single-storey service cottages, with seven bays and two doorways. A large garage door is situated in the end, or south, bay. These cottages are also built of rubble, with end and ridge stacks, and a Caithness slate roof.
A slightly later two-storey, four-bay range sits on the corner plot and was not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1871.
Local climate
Lybster Quatre Bras ' 2 4-bay dwellings 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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