Byre, Ivy Cottage, Ulbster is a Grade B listed building in the Highland local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 April 1994. Byre.

Byre, Ivy Cottage, Ulbster

WRENN ID
third-mortar-peregrine
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Highland
Constituency
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross MP: Jamie Stone (LD)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 April 1994
Type
Byre
OS grid reference
ND 315 397
Coordinates
58.34114, -3.17067
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a byre dating from the later part of the 19th century, constructed from roughly coursed rubble masonry, with some later harl pointing. It has a rectangular plan positioned at right angles to the house, running from northeast to southwest. The southeast elevation features two doors, while the other elevations are blank, with a blocked door on the northwest side.

The doors are boarded, and the building has a piended roof on the northeast side and a gabled wallhead on the southwest. The roof is covered with Caithness slate and includes five small glazed roof panes.

Local climate

Byre, Ivy Cottage, Ulbster receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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