Church Of Scotland Mission House, Leathad Carnaich is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 January 1991. Mission church.
Church Of Scotland Mission House, Leathad Carnaich
- WRENN ID
- watchful-hearth-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Highland
- Constituency
- Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1991
- Type
- Mission church
- OS grid reference
- NC 892 557
- Coordinates
- 58.47623, -3.90066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Church of Scotland Mission House, built in 1910, is a corrugated iron church that was established as a mission for the United Free Congregation. The building also includes a missionary's house at the north end and is likely a kit design from Spears of Glasgow. It remains virtually unaltered and is set on a rubble base. The church features small-paned windows in segmental-arched openings, with some windows being tripartite. There is timber detailing, including margins and gable head framing, and the roof is also made of corrugated iron, topped with a plain axial ventilator. The structure is essentially rectangular and plain, with a porch at one corner and two-bay flanks. Inside, the original timberwork and hanging paraffin lamps are preserved. The house originally had a three-bay gabled west front and was extended by one bay while retaining its profile, with a rear outshot added, all in corrugated iron shortly after the church was constructed.
Local climate
Church Of Scotland Mission House, Leathad Carnaich sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% 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 0.3°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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