Memorial, Stemster is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.
Memorial, Stemster
- WRENN ID
- ruined-lancet-moon
- Grade
- C
- 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 183 610
- Coordinates
- 58.53013, -3.40464
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The dovecot at Stemster House dates from the late 17th to early 18th century. It is a square, roofless structure made of rubble, featuring a central door on the south elevation and flightholes above. A rat course encircles the building, providing an alighting ledge for the flightholes, with remnants of an upper rat course visible on the east and west gables. There is a blocked central vent at the rear. The interior is in ruins, but some stone nesting boxes and brick buttresses remain. In front of the dovecot, there is a simple square rubble pedestal that supports a rubble plinth with a stone plaque inscribed "The Unknown Kirk."
Local climate
Memorial, Stemster 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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