Stable And Gig-House, Cottage, Nigg House is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 August 1983. Cottage.
Stable And Gig-House, Cottage, Nigg House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-glass-frost
- 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
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NH 804 715
- Coordinates
- 57.71809, -4.00895
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th century single storey and attic cottage with three bays, connected to a stable and gig house by a single storey, two-bay wing that is set back between the two. The building is constructed of whitewashed rubble with ashlar margins.
The cottage features a central door, three small piended dormers, and end stacks, all under a slate roof. The stable is a simple structure that includes the gig house and has two loft vents at the wallhead, also covered by a piended slate roof.
Local climate
Stable And Gig-House, Cottage, Nigg House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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