The Old Manse And Service Cottage, Lothmore is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 December 1979. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Manse And Service Cottage, Lothmore
- WRENN ID
- waning-marble-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1979
- Address
- The Old Manse And Service Cottage, Lothmore, KW8 6HP
- OS grid reference
- NC 970 112
- Coordinates
- 58.07839, -3.74711
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Manse and Service Cottage are a building of primarily later 18th-century origin, though significantly altered with extensions. The north facade presents as two storeys and three bays, with a harled exterior and contrasting painted tooled ashlar margins. The original south frontage is three bays, with a central doorway now largely obscured by a later 19th-century, two-storey, asymmetrical wing. A new entrance is located within a shallow, projecting square porch in the southwest re-entrant angle. The windows are mostly 12-pane sashes, and two original piended dormers are found in the earlier part of the house. Corniced end stacks are visible, along with later 19th-century roof skewes and skewputts above the gables, all beneath a slate roof.
A single-storey, three-bay service cottage adjoins the east gable at a right angle, with a later doorway added to the rear elevation. A long, low, single-storey, buttressed L-plan steading, incorporating a gighouse, stands nearby, also harled and with a slate roof.
The former Church of Scotland Manse Garden borders an old graveyard, the historic site of an earlier parish church. A plan of the manse, dated 1826, is held within the National Library of Scotland, Sutherland Papers.
Local climate
The Old Manse And Service Cottage, Lothmore 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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