Sutherland House, Sutherland Street, Helmsdale is a Grade C listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1984.

Sutherland House, Sutherland Street, Helmsdale

WRENN ID
wild-keystone-summer
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1984
OS grid reference
ND 027 154
Coordinates
58.11763, -3.65303
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a circa 1825 house on Sutherland Street, Helmsdale, built to a symmetrical design with three bays across and a central doorway. The exterior is harled with contrasting painted ashlar margins outlining the windows and corners. The windows are sash windows with four panes to each. The roof is slate, with chimney stacks at each end of the building. A single-storey lean-to extension is present on the north-west gable. The house occupies a corner site where Sutherland Street meets Lilleshall Street.

Local climate

Sutherland House, Sutherland Street, Helmsdale 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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