Corffhouse, Lovat Bridge is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 June 1981. 1 related planning application.
Corffhouse, Lovat Bridge
- WRENN ID
- deep-entrance-violet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1981
- Address
- Corffhouse, Lovat Bridge, IV4 7BE
- OS grid reference
- NH 515 448
- Coordinates
- 57.46966, -4.47679
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Corf House, dated 1742 and 1803, with restoration work circa 1968, is a single-story corf house built around a square court. The exterior is modern harling over a rubble core, with tooled rubble dressings. The symmetrical, south-facing entrance front has seven bays, featuring a wide, segmental arched entrance with a datestone above. Three windows flank the entrance on either side, the right side lighting a former dwelling. The windows have multi-pane glazing. The inner court contains a range of stores, with a former fish-house built against the slope in the north range. Three wide, segmental-headed brick fireplaces are present, each fitted with iron pins to support a swey; one is dated 1742 and bears the initials SLL, representing Simon Lord Lovat, and the other datestone displays "S L L / 1742 / H C A F L / 1803". A large stack is located to the north. The roof is piended and covered in corrugated asbestos.
Corf House is a commercial salmon fishing building, reflecting the considerable wealth generated by the Lovat salmon fishings on the River Beauly. Within the inner court, a cobbled surface remains, and a single, large copper cauldron, used for par-boiling fish, is still present. A former ice house, located in the northwest corner, is now gutted. The building continues to be used for commercial salmon fishing. Historical records, including The Statistical Account (1794, page 513) and The New Statistical Account (1841, page 487), provide further context.
Local climate
Corffhouse, Lovat Bridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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