Melness House is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. House.
Melness House
- WRENN ID
- floating-corridor-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NC 580 608
- Coordinates
- 58.51249, -4.43782
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Melness House is a late 18th century, south-facing, two-storey, three-bay house featuring a central door that is concealed by a lean-to porch. An addition, which is also two-storey and has an attic, was added in the early to mid-19th century, creating an L-shaped plan. The exterior is finished in whitewashed or harled rubble. The main entrance is located in the east-facing section of the later addition, which has a projecting gabled central bay, a side entrance, a first-floor window above, and an apex stack, along with two-piended dormers. To the north of the main house, there is a single-storey, three-bay service dwelling connected by a short passage. This service dwelling features small wallhead attic windows and a corrugated asbestos roof. The windows throughout include 12-pane and 2-pane glazing, and the property has a large rear wallhead stack, end stacks, and slate roofs.
Local climate
Melness House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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