Northern House, Cooper's Buildings, Latheronwheel is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 November 1984.

Northern House, Cooper's Buildings, Latheronwheel

WRENN ID
shadowed-joist-dawn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 November 1984
Address
Northern House, Cooper's Buildings, Latheronwheel, KW5 6DW
OS grid reference
ND 191 324
Coordinates
58.27282, -3.37933
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Northern House, along with its companion dwelling, was built around 1855 as a pair of two-storey houses in Latheronwheel, specifically within the Janestown area of the village. The houses are symmetrical in design, with four bays each. They are constructed of whitewashed rubble stone with dressings of tooled rubble. The front facade features a pair of central doorways, each flanked by a single window. There are four windows on the first floor, and a single window on both the ground and first floors of the southwest-facing gable. Chimneys are located at each end of the building, and the roof is covered with slate. Local sources suggest Northern House was the second building to be erected in Janestown, following the construction of the Latheronwheel Hotel.

Local climate

Northern House, Cooper's Buildings, Latheronwheel 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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